PEOPLE who sent or received emails from Yahoo Mail from late 2011 are able to sue the company as a group, a US judge has ruledYahoo faces a US class action lawsuit from an estimated one MILLION email users.
US District Judge Lucy Koh, sitting in San Jose, California, ruled earlier this week that people who sent emails to, or received emails from, Yahoo Mail subscribers since October 2 2011 may sue as a group under the Federal Stored Communications Act for alleged privacy violations.Yahoo has been accused of scanning the contents of emails sent to Yahoo Mail users in a bid to improve the targeted advertising for its 275million email subscribers.
Non-Yahoo Mail subscribers claimed the company also intercepted and analysed their emails – including keywords and attachments – to better its targeted advertising and boost profits, in addition to simply detecting spam and malware.
Last year, 80 per cent of the internet giant's revenue came from its search and display advertising.
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