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Re:Google Says Scanning Text Of Your Emails To Sell Ads Is P... by anxiousest on Friday September 06, 2013 @05:54AM (#6339528)
What is it 2004?! of course it's legal, same as "scanning" mail content to identify spam or enable full text search. This lawsuit is ridiculous, it's either a money making scam or a PR stunt or both.
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Re:Google Says Scanning Text Of Your Emails To Sell Ads Is P... by Revisor on Friday September 06, 2013 @05:58AM (#6339537)
Maybe today is the right time to ask the question again.
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Re:Google Says Scanning Text Of Your Emails To Sell Ads Is P... by anxiousest on Friday September 06, 2013 @06:09AM (#6339558)
It's a stupid question. They want webmail services (nay all cloud services) to cease automatically processing data they store. It's nonsense, that is what these services are all about, they want them to become useless, basically destroying their whole functionality and the economy related to them.
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