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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours by deong on Monday May 12, 2014 @06:28AM (#7731955)
And it's not true that "nothing happened" in that case. Microsoft was publicly beaten up a bit, and then changed their policy to say they will no longer do that.
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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours by throwaway7767 on Monday May 12, 2014 @07:42AM (#7732139)
> Microsoft was publicly beaten up a bit, and then changed their policy to say they will no longer do that.

What? No.

They saw the PR pouncing they were taking, so they hired a former judge to rubber stamp such things in the future, and had the gall to call it a "judicial process" (even though the guy is just a microsoft employee at this point).

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours by deong on Monday May 12, 2014 @09:11AM (#7732458)
This (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/microsoft-will-no...) is what I was referring to. Whether Ars Technica is wrong about it, I can't say.
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