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by eranknow 3815 days ago
Email data is not shared, as it remains client side, where recommendations are given per user.

No identifiable data leaves your device, and only anonymized info is utilized to build a "personal model" for a user.

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I would have issue with "anonymized info" as this is difficult to achieve as shown from other anonymous data releases [0].

[0] http://yro.slashdot.org/story/06/09/25/2150209/AOL-Subscribe...

> No identifiable data leaves your device

This sounds incredibly hard to achieve with email contents - nothing identifiable at all? Does it do things like strip names out of email bodies? It says they learn contacts under priority stuff (which seems sensible) - so they do that locally?

Looking at their other features - what are they sending messages to the cloud for?

No way to know, since it isn't free software.
It's good to see that someone remembers why libre software IS important. Because you know what you are running on your machine.