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Am I the only one who finds those "trending keywords" creepy? Email isn't public like Twitter, after all.

A single word, spread across several hundred million accounts is "creepy"? I think yes, you may be the only one.

Creepy? No. A clear violation of expected privacy? Yes.

This is tricky. I was shocked when I saw it, but this is really just a visualization of the terms they're looking at for spam detection.

I'm surprised they added this feature to the data-viz to be honest. People don't like being reminded that our emails are parsed, even if just for spam filtering.

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