Lawsuit Against Google- Assignment 5B

UC Berkeley Students File Lawsuit Against Google Alleging Illegal Scanning of Emails

Summary:

In March 2014, Google was being investigated for scanning emails in Apps for Education through services like Google Drive and Google Mail. Two years later, four students from UC Berkeley filed a lawsuit against Google. The four students say they did not agree to have their emails scanned for advertising purposes. The lawsuit is that Google violated a privacy act. Their argument is that they did not sign an agreement to share any of their personal information. The claim could be worth $10,000 per person in damages. The Google representative said the company does not comment on litigations. Google did agree to disable ads scanning in Apps for Education in April 2014, decreasing chances of email scanning for users.

My Opinion:

A contract should be abided by 100% of the time. If Google does something to break a contract, they should have to pay a price. Not necessarily in money. Some people file lawsuits just to get money but for those who actually want justice for whatever was done to them should hit them where it actually effects them. For example, Google has plenty of money. For them to satisfy people by just giving them money does not hurt them. They should lose privileges or something that effects their business. If Google wants/needs advertisement that bad, they could offer contracts to individuals that allows them to do what they want to do with others' accounts.