Can Google Base Ads On E-mails Sent To Gmail Accounts?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 9, 2012 @02:11AM from the can-and-do dept.

concealment writes "A new lawsuit targets Google for reading e-mails to target ads, according to TechCrunch. But the issue isn't that Google is reading e-mails from registered users; rather, the company is using e-mails sent from other services to Google users to target ads as well. Google has gotten the side-eye a few times in the past for using e-mail content to serve context-based ads to its Gmail users. And for those Gmail users, Google's hide is covered: the terms of service explicitly state that users' e-mail content determines what ads they see."

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Re:Are you new? by dintech · 2012-10-09 03:05 · Score: 5, Funny

Look, we've only got a couple of days to get rid of the body. The neighbors are getting suspicious about the smell. Do you have a saw?

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