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Re:Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak by rbanffy on Thursday March 20, 2014 @10:44PM (#7440347)
Wrong. Google hands your email to software agents that select ads you are most likely interested to see. Microsoft hands your email to lawyers who will later sue you.
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Re:Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak by ntakasaki on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:26PM (#7440475)
http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...
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Re:Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak by rbanffy on Friday March 21, 2014 @08:45AM (#7441894)
Did Google management order him to look into that data searching for something Google management wanted? No. Was he fired for that? Yes.
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