Most tech people realized 20 years ago email is a terrible place for confidential information unless you have OPSEC and use PGP. If you trust your plain text email traveling around the world and stored in Google's cloud it seems stupid to worry about someone accessing it.
Also Gmail allows you to create more than one account. Instead of all this alarmism in media just tell people they should create a separate account in Gmail just for games instead of using the one you are worried about some big billion dollar company accessing it (which they already do).
Also Gmail allows you to create more than one account. Instead of all this alarmism in media just tell people they should create a separate account in Gmail just for games instead of using the one you are worried about some big billion dollar company accessing it (which they already do).