By Noel Young

A California judge has ordered Yahoo to face claims that it illegally shared the content of emails in the latest ruling to hold Internet companies accountable for how they convert users’ personal data into advertising dollars.

Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose ruled in March that Google’s privacy policy was vague and possibly misleading about how it mined emails for information. Google later changed its user terms, said Bloomberg.

Now Koh and her colleagues face the task of reconciling wiretap laws written in the landline-phone era with users’ concerns about how companies use the troves of data generated when Read full story ›

Source: The Drum