Silicon Valley judge Lucy Koh is going to make Google go to court to defend its practice of scanning emails. The company is being accused by users of illegally wiretapping by scanning the data of
Gmail in order to serve relevant ads. Koh denied Google's defense which claimed that this scanning practice is part of the business operations of offering free email. "
In fact, Google’s
alleged interception of e-mail content is primarily used to create user profiles and to provide targeted advertising — neither of which is related to the transmission of e-mails,” she
wrote in last week’s ruling.Read the whole story at The New York Times »
