Google has been a little more careful than Facebook when it comes to protecting your privacy. The practice of sharing user data with third-party firms became common knowledge after it was revealed that Facebook let numerous third-party apps harvest massive amounts of user data for their own purposes. According to the report, employees of a company called Return Path read about 8,000 user emails two years ago in order to help train its software. In contrast, the WSJ's report claims that Google "does little to police these developers," which in some cases actually have their employees read users' emails. "Before a published, non-Google app can access your Gmail messages, it goes through a multi-step review process that includes automated and manual reviews of the developer, assessment of the app’s privacy policy and homepage to ensure it is a legitimate app, and in-app testing to ensure the app works as it says it does," Frey says.
The post, signed by Suzanne Frey, Director of Security, Trust and Privacy at Google Cloud, admits that Google allows third party developers to access your Gmail messages, but only if you've granted them permission, and only after they pass a strict review process. Everyone's getting new Gmail - and old Gmail will soon go extinct
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