In a win for personal privacy, Google has announced that the company will no longer read the email of their personal Gmail account users.
Google has been scanning Gmail email to identify what kind of ads to place in Web browsers for its users.
Although a lawsuit seems to have pushed them to do this, my guess is that it is no longer necessary. They are probably getting better, more accurate information by simply vacuuming every Web site you visit. I've never had a Gmail account and don't use Google for search, but within a few seconds of doing some online shopping/searching, the ads I see in my browser change to the product(s) I was shopping for.