Yahoo has lost a bid to block a lawsuit filed on behalf of millions of Internet users that alleges wiretapping violations in the company’s scanning of email, BloombergBusiness reports. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has granted class-action status to nonsubscribers of the email service “who claim the company mines data from their messaging for advertising purposes,” the report states. Last year, Koh refused to let a similar complaint against Google advance as a class-action. In the Yahoo case, Koh said the plaintiffs established a “real and immediate threat of repeated injury.” Yahoo has not commented on the ruling.
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