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Google reads your emails.

Whenever I buy a flight, google puts the date on "my" calendar.

Just lets not pretend Microfsoft is especially bad at this, ok?

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But that is your calendar, not something that is normally speaking visible to the whole web.

It's not "your" calendar, it's Google's calendar.

By that logic they are not your emails, they are Google's.

Which would be correct, considering that ownership implies full and complete right of dominion over said entity, which you simply don't have. You could be locked out of your account with no means of getting back access, you can delete your data but have no guarantees that the data has been deleted, Google may create 'derivative works' on your data (see the terms of use) without your permission or will provide data about your account to authorities, etc.. That is not ownership, that's renting.

You know perfectly well what I meant.

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