Here's hoping MS makes a campaign out of it. And that others follow suit.
Is it privacy violation when a machine matches keywords to ads? Unless the machine has some kind of consciousness, I can't see a privacy issue unless some human gets access to that information.
Does this mean Microsoft free Gmail competitor, Hotmail, does not relate ads with viewer profile and screen content?
Correct me if I am wrong, but the change in google's privacy policy meant that the data google collects from google+ is shared along the data that they collect from gmail. Which, to my mind, means that the data is both stored, and able to be shared.
To the best of my knowledge, they have not said that they would ever share this information with anyone else. But Google just changed their privacy policy, and I don't think there is any legal recourse should they decide to change it again. Given the financial pressures on Google to sell that information, I fear that there is strong likelihood that it will eventually be sold.
It could be a potential privacy violation if the data is hacked, leaked, used to gather intel on my business, analyzed, backed up for eternity, accessed by 3rd party, etc.
> Does this mean Microsoft free Gmail competitor, Hotmail, does not relate ads with viewer profile and screen content?
Hotmail does not analyze your emails for keywords. They display ads on other, less intrusive, factors.
I also know Hotmail (by it's own admission) does not do this.
Aside from running emails through a spamfilter, I'd rather not have my email provider gather intel on me via the contents of my emails.