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by TsomArp 3963 days ago
An algorithm reading your email to look for words to server better ads is hardly spying imho. I rather see ads of things that interest me than ads for casinos. And I'm hardly a MS lover.
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Unless, of course they are looking for the words "male", "escort", "date" in e-mails from a (most likely Republican) Senator, married with kids :-)

Joking aside, you realize what you just have said is naive? Any form of privacy invasion can be - and eventually will be - used for nefarious purposes.

Then open-source the algorithms and give security to people!!