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Yahoo settles class action suit over scanning email for ad targeting

Yahoo has settled a class action lawsuit over automatically scanning email sent by non-Yahoo Mail customers including attachments without consent, in order to deliver targeted ads to Mail users. Yahoo agreed that e-mail content will be only sent to servers for analysis for advertising purposes after a Yahoo Mail user can access the email in his or her inbox. Yahoos changes to system architecture and website i.e. that email will be scanned only after it hits an inbox or outbox are significant structural changes”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/01/14/yahoo-settles-class-action-suit-over-scanning-email-for-ad-targeting/

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