Class Action over Yahoo Email Scanning May Proceed

Over the past couple of years, several lawsuits have cropped up over the legality of email scanning for targeted advertising purposes.  I blogged about a case against Google last year.  Those cases ended up in Judge Lucy Koh’s courtroom and earlier this week, she decided that a class action lawsuit against Yahoo may proceed.   The plaintiffs, who were non-Yahoo users who had sent email to Yahoo users, claimed that Yahoo’s practice of scanning and analyzing emails violated federal and California wire-tapping laws.  Judge Koh had previously dismissed the case as  Eric Goldman noted last year.