Google is making a change to its advertising practices that will affect millions of Gmail users around the globe. Starting later this year, the company will stop reading your emails to refine its ads.

Google is making a change to its advertising practices that will affect millions of Gmail users around the globe. Starting later this year, the company will stop reading your emails to refine its ads.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Attorneys suing Google say the firm violates privacy and takes personal property by electronically scanning the contents of people’s Gmail accounts and then targeting ads to them.

A U.S. federal judge allowed a class-action suit against Google to proceed, saying the company’s terms of service are unclear when describing how it scans Gmail ...

One of Google’s most controversial Gmail features is finally going away for regular consumers. The company announced today that, sometime later in 2017, it will stop scanning the content of emails ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Jose federal judge has ruled that Google must face a lawsuit that accuses the tech giant of illegally opening and reading the contents of email sent through its Gmail service in ...

A federal judge today found that Google may have breached federal and California wiretapping laws for machine-scanning Gmail messages as part of its business model to create user profiles and provide ...

Google’s controversial practice of scanning emails and analyzing users’ emails for targeted ads reportedly led to the arrest of a 41-year-old Houston man who has been charged with possessing and ...

Google has announced it will no longer scan e-mail messages for ad personalization. Previously, in the consumer version of Gmail, Google’s computers would scan the contents of every e-mail message to ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Google will stop reading your email to target ads, a practice which has been widely criticized by privacy watchdogs and industry competitors and even prompted some consumers to file ...

GMail's "What's New" page has been changed and now reflects that they will be introducing virus scanning capabilities very soon. Here is some information I found on one of their help pages: Each time ...

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