Google admits it still lets HUNDREDS of companies read your Gmail emails

GOOGLE has admitted it's still letting companies read your emails – but no longer scans them itself.

These companies are able to snoop on the sender and recipient, the time the email was sent, and even the contents of the email.

Worse still, Google even allows these outsider companies to share that data onto other third-parties.

That means it's not just developers who make apps that could see your Gmail emails, but entirely separate firms too.

The revelation came in a letter from Google to US senators detailing its privacy practices.

In the letter, Google policy chief Susan Molinari wrote: "Developers may share data with third parties so long as they are transparent with the users about how they are using the data."

Molinari defended the practice, saying that its privacy policy is "easily accessible to users to review" – and that users have to accept the permissions before Google hands over your data.

Last year, Google vowed to stop scanning the emails of Gmail users.

The company had been mining personal data from emails since the service launched back in 2004.

Google said it did this to improve ad-targeting: by learning about what you talk about in emails, Google can deliver more effective ads to you.

That means Google was profiting from reading your emails – something many users probably never realised was happening.

The company halted the practice in 2017, but didn't stop allowing app developers to do the same.

In July this year, the Wall Street Journal revealed that Google was letting "hundreds" of app makers scan the inboxes of millions of users.