Be Careful, Third-parties can read your Google Mail emails

Third-party developers may access emails on Gmail if users give them access to the data, that's the main takeaway from a new Wall Street Journal story.

Google users may authorize companies to access account data. Some companies may request access to "read, send, delete, and manage your email" which gives them full access to emails on Gmail.

Users need to give explicit consent to applications or services, and if that happens through a token-based system that Google uses for this kind of authorization, it does happen without users having to supply their username or password to these companies.

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Read The Wall Street Journal full story Tech’s ‘Dirty Secret’