"Google can scan users' Gmails to see what items they bought," he said. "That is why Amazon removed the list of products from order confirmation emails and require the user to click and login to Amazon to see the order details.
Does Google do that? If so, only for a limited set of email senders, or globally? Would they, for example, read email sent between doctors and patients?
They scan your email and extract what you purchased, when, for how much, and when it was delivered. It appears to be as close to universal as they can get it — they’ve extracted info from some pretty niche retailers emails on my account.
There’s no publicly viewable equivalent for scanned health info but, internally, who knows. It wouldn’t be at all surprising if some of that data went into a training set for ad targeting, at the very least.
Does Google do that? If so, only for a limited set of email senders, or globally? Would they, for example, read email sent between doctors and patients?