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Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers

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"Oath is testing the boundaries of what users may be comfortable sharing. Unlike with web-browsing habits and search histories, many users expect a greater degree of privacy when it comes to personal-communication tools such as email, said Lauren Gelman, an online-privacy lawyer and former executive director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society."

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