August 26, 2016
Yahoo Inc. will stop scanning emails for advertising purposes before users have a chance to read them, among other changes, and pay $4 million in attorneys' fees to settle a privacy class action, according to a deal approved Thursday by a California federal judge.
January 08, 2016
E-mail users who sued Yahoo Inc. for scanning their messages to target advertising to its users say a settlement proposed in their massive class action in California federal court on Thursday will require Yahoo to tweak its practices to comply with California law.
October 20, 2015
A class of email users accusing Yahoo Inc. of illegally scanning their messages for targeted advertising told a California federal judge on Monday that Yahoo's explanation that the scanning takes place on its storage servers and not "in transit" still violates California's Invasion of Privacy Act.
September 21, 2015
Yahoo Inc. on Friday pushed a California federal judge to nix a class action over its allegedly unlawful practice of scanning emails to target advertising, arguing that eavesdropping statutes don't cover its conduct and that plaintiffs can't ask courts to regulate its processing infrastructure.
May 27, 2015
A California federal judge on Tuesday certified a class including multitudes of email users nationwide in a privacy action that claims Yahoo Inc. violates federal law by scanning emails, and created a subclass for Californians raising state law claims.
February 06, 2015
Yahoo Inc. faced a bid potentially massive bid for class certification Friday in a California federal suit claiming it illegally scanned emails to target advertising, with four plaintiffs asking to represent every non-subscriber who has received an email from Yahoo Mail's 75 million subscribers since October 2011.
August 13, 2014
A California federal judge on Tuesday trimmed a proposed class action accusing Yahoo Inc. of illegally scanning and analyzing emails to target advertising, throwing out claims that the company intercepted communications without proper consent while refusing to toss allegations it improperly divulged content data to third parties.
April 08, 2014
Yahoo Inc. fired back Monday in a California federal court at a proposed class action accusing the company of illegally reading, copying and analyzing emails in order to make money on target advertising, contending that its terms of service eliminate any liability under the federal Wiretap Act.
March 27, 2014
Plaintiffs in a proposed class action accusing Yahoo Inc. of illegally reading, copying and analyzing emails in order to make money on targeted advertising asked a federal judge on Wednesday to reject the company's bid to evade the suit, saying the federal Wiretap Act applies to their claims.