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Re:Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to... by tedunangst on Friday October 05, 2012 @01:08AM (#4615752)
Somehow gmail manages to auto suggest and complete email addresses for me. Sounds a lot like they tracking who I correspond with.
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Re:Facebook confirms it is scanning your private messages to... by dumb-dumb on Friday October 05, 2012 @01:44AM (#4615807)
Yes. 2s/aim/initially aim/

I rarely use Javascript (certainly not for email) so I wouldn't know about all the latest Gmail "features". :)

What I was hinting at was a sort of evolutionary pressure on Google... to start using personally identifiable information. That pressure being Facebook as a perceived competitor.

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