A complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges Yahoo violated California privacy and federal electronic communications laws by scanning nonusers’ e-mails in the name of targeted ads, Bloomberg reports. The plaintiffs, who are not Yahoo users, allege Yahoo’s interception of messages sent to a Yahoo subscriber in order to profile, collect data and scan for keywords violates California’s Invasion of Privacy Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The complaint says the practice is “the type of behavior that the U.S. Congress and the California legislature has declared should not be tolerated in a free and civilized society.”
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