A U.S. federal judge allowed a class-action suit against Google to proceed, saying the company’s terms of service are unclear when describing how it scans Gmail ...

Google will no longer scan the email messages of students who use its Google Apps for Education suite, exempting about 30 million users from the controversial Gmail advertising practice. Apps for ...

Google confirmed the move last week, writing in a blog post that the change will be made “later this year.” Once the transition is complete, no emails sent to consumer Gmail inboxes will be scanned ...

They must have come to the conclusion that they've got enough of you tracked on the web elsewhere that they no longer need this 'feature'. Click to expand... Actually "targeted" ads are starting to be ...

Google won a court victory with a judge rejecting class action status for lawsuits over its email scanning. Google Inc. will not have to face a group lawsuit over its scanning of messages to and from ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Google's attorneys say their long-running practice of scanning the contents of people's Gmail accounts to help sell ads is legal, and they are asking a federal judge to dismiss a ...

The virus-scanning feature Google Inc. added to its Gmail Web mail service this week has generated concern, bewilderment and disappointment among some users. The three main complaints being aired in ...

Google Inc. has added a virus scanning feature to its Gmail Web mail service, complementing the existing virus protection based on blocking certain types of file attachments, such as executables.

Google’s confirmed it has added virus-scanning to its increasingly popular – and amazingly still in beta – Gmail free e-mail service. The Microsoft-in-the-making has confirmed Gmail will automatically ...