Yahoo has agreed to add new language to its privacy policy in order to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it wrongly scans email messages for advertising purposes, according to court papers filed on Thursday. The proposed settlement also requires the company to make some technical changes to the way it scans emails, but doesn’t require Yahoo to stop surrounding emails with ads. The …
Yahoo’s once-iconic San Francisco billboard, pictured here in 2011. In late 2013, Yahoo was hit with six lawsuits over its practice of using automated scans of e-mail to produce targeted ads. The cases, which were consolidated in federal court, all argued that the privacy rights of non-Yahoo users, who “did not consent to Yahoo’s interception and scanning of their emails,” were being violated …
Yahoo has agreed to add new language to its privacy policy in order to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it wrongly scans email messages for advertising purposes, according to court papers filed on Thursday. The proposed settlement also requires the company to make some technical changes to the way it scans emails, but doesn’t require Yahoo to stop surrounding emails with ads. The …