Re: Oh dear....
"i could not e-mail the reporter to provide some information about Google looking at the contents of your e-mail."
Google stopped scanning email content of personal GMAIL accounts many years ago, and never did it for its business offerings (G Suite/Google Workspace):
https://workspace.google.com/learn-more/security/security-whitepaper/page-6.html
https://workspace.google.com/terms/dpa_terms.html