• Naked Security, Friday, September 2, 2016 5:28 AM

Yahoo has settled a class action suit that accused the company of reading through emails sent to Yahoo users without consent to deliver targeted ads. The non-Yahoo Mail users claimed that Yahoo violated federal and California state laws by sharing the data with third-party advertisers and were seeking an injunction to force Yahoo to stop. The company agreed not to intercept and analyze emails in transit for advertising purposes for the next three years. The company is still allowed to mine the data once it reaches the users' inboxes.

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