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Thanks. Good information. I was thinking "Gmail" and not "Google" so imagining you were referring to Gmail accounts being handed over to authorities. In any case, it points out how every provider can be viewed through a political or paranoid lens if you wish to. In this case "surveillance" refers to Google doing what Google does--collecting app data to target ads. I would argue that so does Apple, Microsoft, and a million apps we all use. It is impossible to escape it. OTOH the biggest danger most of us face is not targeted ads but instead phishing and other email attacks tricking us into giving up passwords and maybe even control of our device. Google might send us ads, but does your email provider have robust protection against spam, phishing, malware, and other hackery? That's what will get you.
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