U.S. Judge allows court action against Google over e-mail ads
In San Jose U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, California decided that the suggested class action lawsuit against the Google can continue. She refused Google discussion that its users has agreed to having their email read for the reasons of focused advertising.
Google Case
According to court documents Lawsuits brought by nine complainants, some Gmail user or some not was combined before Koh a few months ago. The complainants maintain Google disrespect several laws and regulations, including federal anti wiretapping laws and regulations by consistently crossing the ” creepy line ” to read the private message in order to profit.
Now Google shifted to disregard about the court action, disagreeing in part that the litigators had agreed to the scanning when they agreed to Google terms and conditions. But the Koh disagree with this statement.
The Judge wrote that, ” There is nothing in the policies indicates that Google intercepts email communication in transit between users, and in fact, the guidelines unknown Google purpose to take part in such interceptions.”
Koh did disregard two claims presented by the injured parties but offered them an possibility of refile them with additional details
The case against Google register in U.S. District Court, North District of California, Google Inc. Gmail Litigation 13-md-2430.
