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Re:Soros at Davos: China's social credit system and Big IT a... by avmich on Friday January 25, 2019 @10:45AM (#18998909)
> I don't see any future where your gmails or SMSs are going to be sold to arbitrary 3rd parties so your 'future employers' can read them.

Doesn't Google read gmails? Doesn't Google have agreements with 3rd parties related to using information from those gmails? Is it hard to imagine that, as with Facebook, Google making that information directly available?

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Re:Soros at Davos: China's social credit system and Big IT a... by sonnyblarney on Friday January 25, 2019 @09:59PM (#19004494)
Yes, it is hard to imagine, because it would be a direct violation of their privacy policy and they would be sued into oblivion.

What FB et. al. do with your content is right in the fine print.

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