Antimonopoly Service of Russia will check Gmail

Google has repeatedly come into the view of the antitrust services of different countries. Germany, France and some other countries checked different Gmail services at different times (the trial continues to this day). This time in Russia they decided to check Google for fair competition. More precisely, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation will check Gmail.

The check was started not just like that, but because of the postal service users receiving requests / complaints. According to officials, some Gmail users are dissatisfied with the fact that their emails were analyzed (albeit purely automatic) by the corporation. It is clear that this is done for a reason, and in order to show the user relevant advertising (inside Gmail or on third-party sites).
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This technology has been used by the corporation for a long time, but the Russian anti-trust industry decided to start checking the legality of such an analysis just now. By the way, Natalia Kasperskaya, director of InfoWatch, said that, in her opinion, Google still violates the current laws of the Russian Federation.

As for other popular mail services in Russia, including mail from Mail.ru and Yandex. Mail, these services do not analyze users' letters. According to representatives of these companies, the letters are not analyzed for several reasons, one of which is the unwillingness to annoy their own users.

Via izvestia