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Popular note-taking service Evernote has quickly reversed its decision to allow its employees to physically read customer data that’s uploaded to its service — just a day after it first made the announcement.

“After receiving a lot of customer feedback expressing concerns about our upcoming Privacy Policy changes over the past few days, Evernote is reaffirming its commitment to keep privacy at the center of what we do,” the company said in a new statement late Thursday. “As a result, we will not implement the previously announced Privacy Policy changes that were scheduled to go into effect January 23, 2017.”

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The company first announced in a blog post on Wednesday that it would start adding more machine learning techniques to its service, but it said it needed to allow employees to read customer’s private data to make sure the system was working properly. It argued that employees would receive special training and not abuse the power.