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Google is not scanning emails, he used his work google account to "abuse" the refund policy.


Of course Google scans emails for illegal content. See for example https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/04/google-ch...


Afaik they can scan gmail users, but are not doing this for gsuite users.


All Gmail content is scanned. If you get spam filtered, it means your email is scanned. They certainly aren't going to opt their paying customers out of looking for child porn either. And I'm pretty sure their Smart Compose/Smart Reply features are also trained on everyone's mail, G Suite included.

The only thing Gmail has ever said they won't scan G Suite customers' email for is ads, and they don't do that with consumer email anymore either.


Google's ToS state otherwise.

> Our automated systems analyse your content (including emails) to provide you with personally relevant product features, such as customised search results, tailored advertising and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received and when it is stored.

https://policies.google.com/terms


That's the consumer Gmail tos. The gsuite tos is different.


I wouldn’t make that assumption. Any content aware service will flag that content.




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