Moscow City Court fined Google for reading email messages of Gmail users

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Today it became known that the Moscow City Court fined the Russian representative office of Google for 50 thousand rubles in a suit for reading mail letters, writes Slon. At the same time, the Moscow City Court overturned the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court, which considered the lawsuit, which was filed by a resident of Yekaterinburg Anton Burkov.

Burkov drew attention to the contextual advertising from Google, which was shown to him on various sites. According to him, such advertising could only be picked up as a result of Google’s reading personal letters from the Gmail service.

“I made the final conclusion when I saw that in a correspondence about a trip to the European Court of Human Rights, an advertisement for hotels and tickets to Strasbourg began to appear,” said Anton Burkov, commenting on the situation. A lawsuit demanding to recover 50,000 rubles from Google’s company Anton Burkov filed this winter with the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow.
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At the same time on the page with the privacy policy of the Gmail service states that the system "automatically analyzes your content (including emails) to provide features useful to you."

The Russian representative office of the American corporation offered to make claims to the parent company, which is responsible for the operation of the postal service.

Recall that a few days earlier, FAS found Google to be guilty of violating antitrust laws.

And in 2013, Microsoft criticized the company for reading Google letters from users.