Google stops scanning emails for Education users, and permanently removes ads option too

Google Apps for Education users will no longer have their emails scanned for use in advertising, according to an announcement from the Internet giant earlier today. To recap, Apps for Education is used by K-12 schools around the world, and it delivers free online applications including Gmail, Docs, Spreadsheet and more. Around 30 million students, teachers and administrators use the service today, according to Google. Although Google has always disabled ads by default in Apps for Education, and ads were removed completely in Google Search last year for signed-in K-12 users, it was still possible to enable ads via the...



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