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Judge Rules Google Email-Scanning Lawsuit Can Proceed

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Google is still fighting a lawsuit over surreptitious scanning of emails of non-Gmail users almost three years after it agreed to stop the practice.

In a tentative ruling Thursday, a judge in California rejected the search giant’s request to toss the lawsuit, which was filed last year on behalf of non-Gmail users who claim their emails were scanned in violation of state-privacy laws.