...However, court documents suggest that this could be temporary. A month after Google's announcement, the company quietly agreed (PDF) to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that the targeted-advertising scanning was illegal wiretapping. That deal, in which a federal judge gave "preliminarily approval" (PDF) to on Thursday, binds Google for just three years....
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/google-promised-...