Following her ruling against Google’s request to dismiss a privacy lawsuit accusing it of using personal information gleamed from e-mails transmitted via Gmail, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh is being sought after to hear similar lawsuits against Yahoo. The lawyer who filed a November 15 complaint against Yahoo says Koh’s recent ruling against Google’s request to dismiss the suit against it was “enormously important” for plaintiffs in group privacy suits. Yahoo has requested that three complaints filed against it be combined in an effort to minimize the labor or costs associated should the case be heard by three different judges. Separately, Yahoo has announced that following revelations that the NSA had accessed its data centers, it will add encryption to all of its products by spring 2014.
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