In the beginning of 2015, resident of Ekaterinburg Anton Burkov has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing search giant in reading his personal emails. He found that the company violated his right to privacy, and asked to recover from it 50 thousand Russian rubles (about $685 as of December 30, 2015).

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In the beginning of 2015, resident of Ekaterinburg Anton Burkov has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing search giant in reading his personal emails. He found that the company violated his right to privacy, and asked to recover from it 50 thousand Russian rubles (about $685 as of December 30, 2015).

on April 21, the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow refused Burkov in satisfaction of the claim, but in September the Moscow city court granted his appeal against the decision of Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow, reports TASS. Google filed a protest, but he was not satisfied.

the press service of Google in Russia, TASS reported that do not yet have information on whether the decision of Moscow city court appealed to the Supreme court of the Russian Federation.

"Some time ago I noticed that my correspondence on the Internet I read, and it was none other than the robot of Google. I started to pay attention to the fact that shortly after I wrote emails to Google appeared advertising with close to the theme of the writing goods and services," — said earlier about the trouble Burkov. As asserted by the plaintiff, the robot of the search engine Google is actually engaged in surveillance of users.

"Our automated systems scan email to prevent spam and to identify malicious programs. The same systems are used to display relevant advertising. No one involved in this process", — said the press service of the SEO Corporation.

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