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Yahoo Settles Email Privacy Lawsuit, Agrees to Stop Scanning Non-User Emails

Yahoo has agreed to stop tracking the emails of people who sent emails to Yahoo Mail users until the data is on the Yahoo server. A U.S. District Court judge gave a preliminary approval to the settlement between Yahoo and four people who filed the class action suit. The plaintiffs, who were not Yahoo Mail customers, claimed that Yahoo violated their privacy by scanning their emails when they wrote to people with Yahoo Mail addresses. 

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