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September 6, 2013

Google Defends Practice of Scanning Emails, Asks Judge to Dismiss Privacy Suit 
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Google has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit against its
practice of scanning people's emails in order to provide targeted ads.
Plaintiffs say the tactic is illegal. They note that Google scans emails
sent to Gmail users by non-users who have not agreed to its policies.
Google's attorneys defended the practice during a court hearing
Thursday. In an earlier motion to dismiss the lawsuit, they cited a
decades-old Supreme Court decision, writing "a person has no legitimate
expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third
parties."

 

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