I think there is a mis-understanding about Legacy & MyHeritage Hints.
First of all, MyHeritage does not use your whole database to find hints -
that would take forever with a large database.

Here is what is published by MyHeritage on matches and hints:

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MyHeritage Privacy Policy for Legacy Family Tree
MyHeritage uses Smart Matching™ and Record Matching technologies to match
between family trees and historical records on MyHeritage and Legacy Family
Tree trees.

What is Smart Matching™?
Smart Matching™ compares your family tree to all family trees on
MyHeritage, to look for matches. If matches are found, you are notified and
you can view the matches, confirm or reject them. This feature can help you
make new discoveries in your genealogy research, and also connect you to
distant family members who are researching the same individuals as you are.

What is Record Matching?
Record Matching automatically finds matching historical records for your
family tree, from our growing collection of billions of records. It can
save you time with your research and allow you to make fascinating
discoveries through birth documents, census records, newspaper articles and
more.

How does it work?
When Smart Matching™ and Record Matching are enabled within Legacy Family
Tree, T*information from small parts of your family tree is periodically
passed*, 'behind the scenes' and without you having to do anything, to a
matching service on the MyHeritage website. This information includes
names, dates and places associated with individuals and their close
relatives. MyHeritage uses this data to find extremely accurate Smart
Matches™ and Record Matches for the relevant individuals. *This information
is not collected by MyHeritage and is deleted automatically after matches
are calculated and displayed to you. Smart Matches™ are not bi-directional:
Legacy Family Tree users receive them with trees of MyHeritage users, but
MyHeritage users do not receive them with trees of Legacy Family Tree
users.*

Note that some of the matches can be viewed and confirmed for free, while
others require a MyHeritage data subscription.

*The information passed to MyHeritage is never used for any other purpose
and will never be displayed, sold, licensed or used in any manner
whatsoever.*

If you have any question or concerns, feel free to contact MyHeritage via
the Help Center <http://helpcenter.myheritage.com>.

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I have highlighted in bold the critical information you need to know.

Chap

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Leon Chapman
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On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Roberta Montpetit <
robertamontpe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> "When you sign into v9 MH reads your file and compares with theirs to
> offer hunts.  The feature is automatic unless you turn it off."
>
> That is exactly the point that several people have made!
>
> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 3:05 PM, GORDON M TAYLOR <gm...@msn.com> wrote:
>
>> When you sign into v9 MH reads your file and compares with theirs to
>> offer hunts.  The feature is automatic unless you turn it off.
>>
>> Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/ghei36>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> on
>> behalf of Carrie Pillow <elkerlo...@outlook.com>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, August 6, 2017 10:25:16 AM
>> *To:* Legacy User Group
>> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Concerns about MyHeritage
>>
>>
>> How can they ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Your data is on your computer, it is only seen if you share it!
>>
>>
>>
>> Carrie
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On
>> Behalf Of *GORDON M TAYLOR
>> *Sent:* 06 August 2017 15:44
>> *To:* Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Concerns about MyHeritage
>>
>>
>>
>> MH can see your file now in LFT 9.
>>
>>
>>
>> gmt
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> *From:* LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> on
>> behalf of Chris Hill <chris.hill.11he...@gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, August 6, 2017 3:02:56 AM
>> *To:* 'Legacy User Group'
>> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Concerns about MyHeritage
>>
>>
>>
>> One of the concerns that I am seeing in this set of messages is a fear
>> that
>> MyHeritage will be able to extract a copy of your tree from your local PC
>> through Legacy.
>>
>> To do that, they will need to get Millennia to make changes to the Legacy
>> program, which I doubt that they will do so long as they are operating
>> totally separately.
>>
>> If they did manage to make that change they would also need your explicit
>> permission to do it.
>>
>> Doing it without permission, which could be done, is the theft of your
>> private information, including information on living people.
>>
>> That would be illegal in the EU, GB and, I assume, USA, and I am sure that
>> your USA based users are quite capable of raising a class issue against
>> them
>> if they did it.
>>
>> If, as it has been suggested, MyHeritage have ignored a user setting that
>> a
>> tree is Private and converted it to Public tree with no permission, they
>> are
>> again breaking our laws.
>>
>>  So, there should not be an issue here, but we do need to keep an eye on
>> what they are planning and doing.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com
>> <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com>] On
>> Behalf Of Cathy Pinner
>> Sent: 06 August 2017 03:31
>> To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
>> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Concerns about MyHeritage
>>
>> Anne,
>> It still applies.
>>
>> Besides it's not so easy to sync a desktop database with an online tree
>> system. Note the delay in the release of FTM and RootsMagic sync ability
>> with the Ancestry tree.
>> Any syncing between a Legacy family file and a My Heritage tree requires
>> the
>> development of the mechanism to do it.
>> It won't come before Legacy 10 and is expected to be entirely optional.
>> On top of that you then have the Privacy settings on a MyHeritage tree
>> apparently. I don't have one.
>>
>> Cathy
>>
>> > Anne Wiltshire <mailto:smugg...@iinet.net.au <smugg...@iinet.net.au>>
>> Sunday, 6 August 2017
>> > 10:21 AM Hello all Does My Heritage Privacy Policy for Legacy Family
>> > Tree (in the Help
>> > file) still apply or will My Heritage be able to take all my tree onto
>> > their website.
>> > With thanks
>> > Anne Wiltshire
>> > Runaway Bay QLD Australia
>> > *From:* CE WOOD
>> > *Sent:* Sunday, August 6, 2017 10:55 AM
>> > *To:* Legacy User Group
>> > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Concerns about MyHeritage
>> >
>> > Their TreeBuilder syncs with their website. I do not use it, so know
>> > only that.
>> >
>> > Complete privacy on the website occurs *_ONLY_* if you set those
>> > options on your website tree. If you have more than one tree loaded on
>> > your website, you must set the privacy settings for each. Some people
>> > don't mind having people find and/or view some of their trees.
>> >
>> > You can even set your tree so that it *_cannot be found _*if someone
>> > searches. You can do the same for any pictures or files you upload. If
>> > someone can't find your info by searching, they cannot view it.
>> >
>> > You can limit those who can find your site to only your list of
>> > "members", and you can prevent "members" from changing anything on
>> > your site.
>> >
>> > On far too many internet sites you find on the internet, people think
>> > a source is someone else's website! With very, very few exceptions,
>> > you can never trust anyone else's sources; you must go to their source
>> > yourself to check.
>> >
>> > My research is mainly medieval. My sources are original documents
>> > (primary sources) or reliable secondary sources such as _Complete
>> > Peerage_, _Domesday Descendants_, _Domesday People_, Settipani's
>> > tomes, etc.., but, with new documents being discovered almost daily,
>> > especially in England, errors have been found in many of those. There
>> > are several scholarly websites devoted solely to the corrections in
>> those.
>> >
>> > MyHeritage is very far from perfect, but they have access to only your
>> > information that you allow them.
>> >
>> > CE
>> >
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > --
>> > *From:* LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> on
>> > behalf of johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au <johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au>
>> > *Sent:* Saturday, August 5, 2017 5:15 PM
>> > *To:* LegacyUserGroup@Legacyusers.com
>> > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Concerns about MyHeritage
>> >
>> > I tried MyHeritage with the basic subscription and don't trust it for
>> > various reasons. It defaulted to automatic renewals every year and I
>> > don't remember any other options. It was extremely difficult to find
>> > out how to enter an end date for the subscription because it was
>> > buried so deeply. From memory, I had to get out of their website and
>> > search on Google to find out how to do it.
>> >
>> > I entered some relatives on their Family Tree Builder. Even though I
>> > thought I kept everything private, it ended up fully displayed on
>> > their website.
>> >
>> > You can never relax while using MyHeritage and have to constantly be
>> > on guard. Their technology/program seems to have "trip wires"
>> > everywhere to reset everything to defaults that suit them.
>> >
>> > Like others, I found MyHeritage users never provide sources. To
>> > contact them or see their website, often requires paying the premium
>> > subscription.
>> >
>> > On one occasion, I did manage to correspond with someone using
>> > MyHeritage, but his information was full of errors and false
>> > presumptions. He claimed to be an engineer!
>> >
>> > I think MyHeritage will do everything they can to mine data from
>> > Legacy users. Also, Legacy users will gradually have to pay for more
>> > and more features and upgrades. As for cloud storage of family files-
>> > as soon as users get used to it, there is little doubt that costs will
>> > be attached.
>> >
>> > MyHeritage seems geared to obtaining your data for free, while making
>> > you pay as much possible to search for any.
>> >
>> > John
>> >
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