Google's lawyers said in their long-running practice electronic scanning people's Gmail account content to help sell advertising is legitimate, asked a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that seeks to stop the practice.
Submitted in advance hearing is scheduled for Thursday in San Jose federal court records, Google believes that "all of the user's e-mail must expect their e-mail will be handled automatically."
May, submitted a class action, said Google "illegal open, read, and get other people's private e-mail", in violation of privacy laws in California and federal wiretap prospectus content. The lawsuit said the company even scan messages sent to any 4,250,000 active non-Gmail users Gmail users have never agreed to the terms of the Company.
Its goal is how the word according to its advertising, display messages in Gmail, Google has repeatedly described. For example, the company said that if someone received a lot of news photography or camera, then it may display advertisements from a local camera shop. Google says the process is fully automated, "No one read your e-mail ......"
"This case involved the plaintiff in criminal ordinary business practice, there are already partly because it is Google's free Gmail service was launched nearly ten years of efforts," the company counsel, in their motion to dismiss the case decision.
Privacy advocates questioned the practice.
"People believe that, for better or worse, their email is private letters, from a $ 18 billion company whose whims eyes and said:" Consumer Watchdog president Jamie Court.
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