30.04.2014 - 21:41 [ Think Progress ]

Under Pressure Of Lawsuit, Google Says It Will Stop Reading Students’ Emails

Google was scanning the email accounts of over 30 million underage student users worldwide who used its Google Apps for Education service, a free online toolkit for college and K–12 educators and students, The Wall Street Journal reported. The plaintiffs asserted that Google not only scanned emails but used the students’ email content to build secret profiles of each individual that could be used for advertising.