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

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:Amazon Does this too

[Internal Modem]

You weren't published by Slashdot because you didn't have a blog that quoted another blog that linked to the original blog which had a link to a news aggregation site pointing to the original story.

Re:Oh for crying out loud

[noh8rz10]

i've been speaking english for 60 years now, I think I know how to do it thankyouverymuch. anti-fail, bounce back on you.