A group of current and former students from UC-Berkeley are suing Google for data mining their student Gmail accounts through the Google Apps for Education program for years before the technology company promising to stop the practice two years ago. The lawsuit argues that this collection of information was neither necessary for Gmail to function properly, nor was it incidental. Complicating the situation for Google is that before the data mining stopped, the company’s policies claimed that it was not collecting the type of information it is accused of gathering.
