No, I’m going to stop you right there scanning and Indexing personal emails is nothing like web scrapping.
All of your data that you submit to a 3rd party service can be stored and scanned. How do you think data warehousing works or analytics? Let's say you're watching Netflix. Did you know Netflix tracks your interest, likes, dislikes, who you are, what videos you like, your play through in a show, ... basically ALL interaction about you? All this data will be stored in a data warehouse that they can develop machine learning AIs to profile who you are
anonymously. They can deduce your interests easily by correlating all types of behavior properties in your interaction. How? Because you use their service and they track it.
Now take Google and look at the services they offer compared to Netflix and Apple. You provide them a much broader data set. They can do whatever they want behind the scenes to improve their profile models. If you don't feel comfortable using Google email, maybe you should stick to Mailinator. While you're at it, don't use LinkedIn, Facebook/Instagram, Snapchat, Wechat, <insert messaging service> because messages are getting saved and sent over the wire which they can have autonomous processes figure out how to target you.
From an AI and machine learning pov, modeling profiles is much more valuable to a company than to identify specifically you. Maybe they might say "
ffr@gmail.com" fits the "ABC" profile, and they will tweak the profile with different data variables that affect your overall profile. However, much of this can still be done anonymously. For all intensive purposes to them, your ID can simply be "c1ecccfa8ff75c90ea62b3b386aecb48" matching to the tweaked "ABC" profile.
For your reference, you should read more about data modeling and machine learning. Maybe crack open some software engineering books to help you understand how it works.
If you have to start redefining words to prove your point, not much of one to begin with.
I'm only defining it because I think non-technical people such as yourself misuse the word in a negative connotation. Every company mines your data if you use them as a service.
Google mines it’s users data it’s not really a debate at this point, as another user pointed out it’s googles business model. You don’t have to believe it.
I do trust myself, and that’s why I and many others consumers use and prefer Apple, because they don’t mine your personal data just for using their services... over a random stranger on the internet asserting “google doesn’t mine personal data”... ok sure
I'm just saying the way you are using the word "mine" is no different than how your government, Apple, Amazon, <insert company name including Apple>, credit card agencies, etc mines your data.
As much as Apple prides secrecy of data, I'm willing to bet if you do a social experiment asking why people are using Apple products, that would be one of the least used reasons. Also, don't be a hypocrite. If you use any service to send emails or messages other than writing a letter with pen and paper, then better make sure you trust them as much as you trust Apple
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