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>>The government says your objection appears to be based on concern for your business model and marketing strategy. Is that true?

> Absolutely not. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is and always has been about our customers.

so it is about marketing :-)

All joking aside though, I agree strongly with this document and I'm both a bit surprised and very happy about their detailed arguments and about the passion they put into this issue.

As a customer I'm happy to see that they are really fighting for me and not giving in, even to the point of refusing a comparatively reasonable request out of fear of producing a precedent.



>so it is about marketing

I read that line the same way. Under everything, their business isn't privacy; it's making money. They just happen to take a strong public stance on customer privacy. That seems really difficult to explain to readers without patronizing.




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