Google CEO: ‘We Don’t Read Your Gmail Unless We Have Express Consent from You’

EXCERPT:

PICHAI: “As a company we don’t read your Gmail unless we have express consent from you, for example, to investigate security or abuse-related to an account. On G Suite, we provide G Suite across many instances, we have clear policies against that. We don't use --”
HANDEL: “Right. But what I’m asking is, are the policies different?”
PICHAI: “We don't distinguish between -- so for example, today we provide G Suite for free to many educational institutions. We don’t use that data for -- from within G Suite for advertising —“
HANDEL: “You collect it.”
PICHAI: “Well, we store — you know G Suite involves user documents, documents on Gmail, so we store it for the user so they can access it."
HANDEL: “And no one in your company has access to it?" 
PICHAI: “People --"
HANDEL: "Or they do have access?”
PICHAI: "We have policies that they cannot access it unless they have specific consent from the user for a specific situation."