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> 2) Using that email access to "inadvertently" upload the information of their email contacts.[1]

If they wanted to show proper contrition, they'd not only delete that information from their systems, they'd also remove all links in the social graphs that can be in any way a result of that information. They'd also take 100% of their revenue that was even slightly influenced/generated by the inappropriately gather data and send it out to the users whose data was copied without permission.

Also they should probably put together a legal team who will be ready to start handling the $150,000 per copied item that they didn't have the right to copy. :lol




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