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Google Clarifies Email Scanning Practice

  • Reuters, Tuesday, April 15, 2014 10:54 AM
Likely at the request of its lawyers, Google just updated its terms of service to clarify the fact that users’ incoming and outgoing emails are automatically analyzed to target advertising. “The revisions more explicitly spell out the manner in which Google software scans users' emails, both when messages are stored on Google's servers and when they are in transit,” Reuters reports. “Users … have accused the company of violating federal and state privacy and wiretapping laws by scanning their messages.”
 

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