Mayayana wrote:
Good points. When Google faced a class action
lawsuit from non-gmail users their defense was
that the people had no case because they should
know that Google is a spyware company, therefore
they had no "expectation of privacy".

Matera vs. Google, Northern California District Court

Your above statement is false and quite hilarious most likely opinion
rather than the gathered from the court's transcription and
documents(the latter is available though some sources may require
account signup/email address validation for an account to access legal
documentation and maybe even result in more targeted ads g).
- i.e. Google never admitted or acknowledged they were a spyware company
in their defense arguments nor directly claming non-Gmail users had no
'expectation of privacy'.

I don't know how that case turned out, or if it's
over. I'd guess the class action probably failed,
simply because it would be too disruptive to business
to let it succeed.

The judge approved the 2.2. Million Settlement(almost all attorney's
fees)in Aug. 2017. The two Class Action representatives each recieved a
few thousand dollars.


Gmail users will still be subject to 'personalized' ads and marketing
messages but these would be based on other data(not data collected from
email scanning prior to Inbox delivery), which may include search
queries or browsing habits.

The free Gmail service would now follow the same practices as its
corporate G Suite Gmail. i.e. 'Consumer Gmail content will not be used
or scanned for any ads personalization.

Now, Google will monitor its Gmail users' online activity, such as
searchers, browsing and YouTube interest, in order to generate the
personalized ads.

Does not impact other specific scanning e.g. they will continue to scan
incoming mail prior to delivery to GMail account Inbox and outgoing mail
for malware. spam, phishing and possible violation of TOS.

A change but marginal since even the Google account holders(including
the non-Gmail users - the class group of the complaint) will continue to
be the source of collected data and recipient of targeted personalized
ads just as all Google account holders have been in the past regardless
on not having a Google Gmail account.



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