PRØBE said:Thank you for the "clarification".
The emails are scanned, information is gleaned from them, that information is then exploited for marketing purposes. That's an invasion of privacy, voluntary or not. While I am expressing an opinion about the ethics of Gmail, you are merely stating that you accept the logisitics of it.
Now we see your real problem, not that the email is scanned, but just that ads are used. It's not an invasion of privacy. Why? YOU AGREE TO IT IN THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. If Google went into your regular mail and look in it without your permission, then by all means, that's an invasion of privacy. Before you start throwing around law, read it first.