A federal judge rejected Google’s claims that wiretapping...
A federal judge rejected Google’s claims that wiretapping laws don’t apply to Gmail, in a decision Thursday in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif. (http://bit.ly/14McA9q). Google had asked the court to dismiss both state and federal claims that…
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it illegally reads the content of private email messages sent via Gmail; Judge Lucy Koh agreed to throw out state claims, inviting the plaintiffs to refile, but refused to dismiss the federal claims. Koh said reading emails is not a necessary part of Google’s business operations and that invasion of privacy laws apply to opening and reading online communications without consent. Consumer Watchdog Privacy Project Director John Simpson in a Thursday statement called the decision a “tremendous victory” for online privacy, saying the ruling means wiretap laws apply to the Internet.