Author Brent Scott has joined the nationwide lawsuit against Google for spying users” web activities after he realised his emails were snooped. Google along with other Internet giants like Facebook, YouTube, and Amazon have been accused of monitoring its users” web activities. According to CBS News, Scott in his book critical of Google”s unprecedented power said that Google has more personal information about Americans than NSA does saying that the latter is focused by law.
Google monitors the emails of millions of its users to figure out which ads the users respond to, a permission that the user does not realise has been given while subscribing to the email service. According to the report, other sites like Facebook and Amazon also track user activity in order to analyze response to the ads and potential future purchase. However, Google insists Gmails are tracked by only computer software, the report added. (ANI)