UC Berkeley students file a lawsuit against Google

The topic of this article is to explain how Google has been scanning emails in Apps for Education, which is a collection of online tools and services that include Google Drive and Google Mail.  Two years after the fact, four UC Berkeley students and alumni filed a lawsuit against Google Incorporation on Wednesday.  They claimed that UC Berkeley emails were Google's main target of obtaining emails between 2012 and 2014.  Additionally in 2014, nine plaintiffs accused Google of scanning emails for advertising purposes without their permission.  The Plaintiffs accuse Google of scanning emails and that Google violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a federal statute that protects electronic communications while in transit and in storage.  Google has not released any information verifying these accusations, but on behalf of the UC Berkeley students and alumni, as well as the nine plaintiffs, believe that the 2014 post by Google acknowledging that Apps for Education emails had been scanned prove it.  Near the end of this article, Hoofnagle wrote in 2014 that Google would have a hard time defending their claim that users and campuses consented to the interception of their communications.
This article is much like the last article that I posted about.  Apparently, Google knows what they are doing and they know the loopholes and possible consequences but they pursue their goals anyways.  Google should take in to account that others information is not theirs to use for any other purpose.  They are put into place to manage and help, not to violate a persons' individual rights.