Yahoo must face email spying class action: U.S. judge
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge ordered Yahoo Inc to face a nationwide class-action lawsuit accusing it of illegally intercepting the content of emails sent to Yahoo Mail subscribers from non-Yahoo Mail accounts, and using the information to boost advertising revenue.
In a decision late Tuesday night, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California said people who sent emails to or received emails from Yahoo Mail subscribers since Oct. 2, 2011 may sue as a group under the federal Stored Communications Act for alleged privacy violations.
She also said a class of non-Yahoo Mail subscribers in California since Oct. 2, 2012 may sue as a group under that state's Invasion of Privacy Act.
Holders of non-Yahoo Mail accounts accused Yahoo of copying and then analyzing their emails, including keywords and attachments, with a goal of creating "targeted advertising" for its estimated 275 million Yahoo Mail subscribers, in addition to detecting spam and malware.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/yahoo-must-face-email-spying-class-action-u-160349434--finance.html
Newsjock
(11,733 posts)... each affected person will receive $10 off a one-year membership to Flickr.
(I think)
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)As a result of winning the suit, I was able to get a 5% discount on 100 shares of my next mutual fund purchase from the same company
Zight
(45 posts)Yahoo shots up against the NSA.
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)I know that emails I sent to some people with google accounts suddenly triggered ads I saw that reflected where that person worked.
As a person that formerly worked with Yahoo Mail, I probably shouldn't say much more than that though. This was about stuff that happened after I left though.