Google stopped scanning student Gmail accounts for advertising purposes after they were sued by a group of students.

Google Apps for Education, a free service used by more than 30 million students, teachers and administrators, offers Gmail email accounts, as well as calendars, cloud storage and document creation.

Google didn’t place ads inside the apps, which it offered to educational institutions since 2006. However, the company continued to scan the contents of students’ Gmail accounts., gathering information that could potentially have been used to target ads to those students elsewhere online. Google said it never used the information to target ads anywhere.

Google is making similar changes to its Apps services for businesses and government users.

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