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 ...

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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