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 ...

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 ...

Yahoo has called a Reuters article about a secret email scanning program “misleading,” and said no such system exists. On Tuesday, the Reuters article claimed that Yahoo had created the custom ...

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