Google has been accused of violating privacy laws. Google is the owner of Gmail. Gmail has been scanning peoples emails to see what kind of advertisements should be showing on their computers. Google is protesting this. This could reshape the entire Google industry. Google is saying that it was never a person looking through the emails, it was a machine, computer robot. Google is also saying that they sent out emails saying that this would be happening. In the end the ruling was that Google has violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a 1986 law and the punishments are to be determined.