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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6172964" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, I am not personally a billion-dollar company that lives or dies based on advertising, so "if it were me" is perhaps not the best measure.  The law may not currently make a distinction, but that question is going to get asked eventually.  The real question here is simple - is it a breach of privacy if *you* are the only one who ever sees the relevant bits?  It isn't like Google it taking your information and giving it to someone else.  They use the data from *your* e-mail to show things to *you*.  Your information does not go to anyone else in a non-anonymized way.  How is your privacy violated?  Your data doesn't actually go to anyone but you! This gets to the basic question - what is "privacy"?  That has not been answered in a solid way for the digital age.</blockquote>