Google’s upcoming “GMail” free e-mail service is raising the hackles of some privacy advocates, because it will insert contextual text advertising alongside mail based on an automated scan of the mail ...

A lawsuit that alleges Yahoo’s email scanning practices are illegal can proceed as a class action complaint, a development that will shine the spotlight on the Yahoo Mail use of messages’ content for ...

What Yahoo was looking for with its alleged email scanning program may have been signs of code used by a foreign terrorist group. The company was searching for a digital “signature” of a communication ...

Last summer, I stumbled onto a brilliantly useful tool that ended up being one of the most well-received discoveries we’ve ever shared in these quarters. It was seemingly so popular, in fact, that its ...

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