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• dredmorbius 9y ago
  That pledge ... seems to possibly be getting rolled back: ...However, court documents suggest that this could be temporary. A month after Google's announcement, the company quietly agreed (PDF) to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that the targeted-advertising scanning was illegal wiretapping. That deal, in which a federal judge gave "preliminarily approval" (PDF) to on Thursday, binds Google for just three years.... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/google-promised-not-to-scan-gmail-for-targeted-ads-but-for-how-long/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/google-promised-...