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The SwiftKey personalization service, which is a feature of SwiftKey Cloud, accesses your recent content from online services that you specify, such as Gmail, Facebook and Twitter. It uses this content to build a personalized language model on our servers, which is then transferred to your device. This is an optimized view of the words and phrases that you use most often, and reflects your unique writing style. Your use of our personalization service means we may store and use data provided by you to develop and improve our Products. You have the right to have this data destroyed, as outlined below.

Sure does. Their privacy policy explains a bit about how they send what you type to the cloud and analyze everything. https://swiftkey.com/en/privac...

If you're concerned about keylogging, using SwiftKey isn't a great choice even before it was M$ owned. Check out all they capture about you when using the keyboard. https://swiftkey.com/en/privac...

yes, but you can turn it off, but as it comes on by default I guess few people turn it off
20 bucks ms gona take out the option to turn it off by claiming that not so many turn it off so the function is not needed

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Maybe Microsoft is acquiring more weapons for its mobile patents war chest. Or defense, given the madness of the IP landscape that ensures only the big boys can innovate.

The question we are entitled to ask is: why aggression is of interest for Mr Hawking? He is stuck in a wheelchair and cannot move at all. He communicates with the external world via a muscle in his cheek. That must make him particularly sensitive to aggression.