A sign outside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., in 2015. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) Four students and alumni from the University of California-Berkeley have sued Google in federal court, alleging that the company — which runs the university’s email accounts — illegally intercepted and scanned emails for advertising purposes without students’ knowledge or consent. Google’s Gmail …
“The right action is, if you have a problem that happened from people that you were responsible for, you go solve it. You don’t walk away from it. You take it head-on,” he says.
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 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 …