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Re:Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Ad... by bpchaps on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @01:53PM (#17861073)
Is any of the data used from that collection/analysis still around?
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Re:Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Ad... by joefkelley on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @02:11PM (#17861269)
No.

I mean, maybe high-level aggregate data like "X% of users got emails about shopping" might still be in some spreadsheet somewhere, or in people's brains. But no, I can't think of a way any personalized data would still be around.

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