Google is on the defensive over potential privacy worries
Last year,
Google stopped scanning your Gmail inbox in order to target personalized ads at you, but plenty of third-party apps are still able to access the content of your emails.
In some cases, developers of certain apps – for example trip planners – can be directly integrated with
Gmail and granted access to utilize user data for their benefit (emails which show when you’re going away, for example, in this mentioned case).
