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This notice was last updated in April of 2014.
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> I do not share your email address with any third party.
That’s a bit misleading considering you do publish the md5 hash of the email address. You might want to update that part to clearly state that hashed emails are published.
It’s often possible to recover an email address from that, by guessing enough plausible email addresses. For example I managed to guess 27k email addresses of stackoverflow users.
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