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[WSJ.com: Digits] Harbour said that social networking was barely a reality when Google introduced its email system and that consumers who signed up for the email service likely did not expect that their data would be used for social networking. When Google introduced a new service, consumers, not the company, should have decided whether or not to sign up for features that could expose their data, she said.

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