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The Moscow City Court has released the text of its decision to effectively ban Google from using its bots to analyze the personal email correspondence of Russian users, business newspaper Vedomosti reports.

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Last month, the court overturned the decision of a lower court, which had thrown out the case of a Yekaterinburg-area lawyer who had launched a case against the tech giant for violating his constitutional right not to have his personal correspondence read.

Earlier this year, Yekaterinburg resident Anton Burkov filed a lawsuit against Google after targeted advertising related to tourism to France began appearing on his browser after he had discussed a trip to Strasbourg with his friends via email in 2013. Google's Russian branch responded that they have no authority to represent Gmail, as the proper defendant, Google Inc., was located under US jurisdiction.

After his case was rejected by Moscow's Zamoskvoretskiy District Court, Burkov appealed the decision to the Moscow City Court. This time, Google's Russian branch issued the defense that its bots have the right to analyze user correspondence for its AdWords service, given that it is in prescribed in the email service's user agreement.

The court came to the decision that it does not matter who reads the correspondence –another human being or a bot, if it violates laws related to the confidentiality of correspondence.