Google's Scanning of Gmail To Deliver Ads May Violate Federal Wiretap Laws

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 27, 2013 @12:52AM from the google's-lawyers-must-be-busy-folk dept.

New submitter SpacemanukBEJY.53u writes "In a declaration that could make Google very nervous, a U.S. federal judge on Thursday rebuffed Google's defense of its targeted ad system that scans the content of Gmail. Judge Lucy Koh — who also heard the Apple-Samsung case — found Google's terms and conditions and privacy policy isn't clear to users. Koh subsequently allowed a class-action suit to proceed against the company (official ruling). The plaintiffs in the suit allege Google violates federal and state wiretap laws by scannning the messages sent by non-Gmail and Gmail users."

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Re:Oh for crying out loud by noh8rz10 · 2013-09-27 03:13 · Score: -1, Flamebait

. Email systems need to read email messages to make the system work but they also need to read the email to do ads.
God that's a stupid statement. FYI you don't needto run ads in order to make the email system work. Thanks for starting my day on a stupid note.