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That is a fair concern. However, as a customer - searching my message history is a desirable feature. I would rather see meaningful individual and corporate accountability for privacy breaches. The threat of jail and/or 100MM's in fines should motivate better data handling.


We've seen this happen over and over again:

- a company amasses a large trove of sensitive information

- it is exposed to adversaries or political enemies

- the information is used against the people




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