Legal action against Google by four UC Berkeley students has
ballooned into two lawsuits by 890 U.S. college students and alumni
alleging the firm harvested their data for commercial gain without their
consent...making the same claim:
that Google's Apps for Education,
which provided them with official university email accounts to use for
school and personal communication, allowed Google until April 2014 to scan their emails without their consent for advertising purposes....
The suit by 710 students alleged that until April 2015, Google denied
it was scanning students' emails for advertising purposes and misled
schools into believing the emails were private.
The students' lawyers say each student is seeking a maximum of $10,000,
while the U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh told the lawyer that "Our
clerk's office is really unhappy you are circumventing our [$400 per
case] filing fees by adding 710 cases under one case number."
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