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Privacey and freedom on the internet.  

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Privacey You may be a stranger to the Internet, the main artery on the so-called information superhighway. You may not even know what the Internet really is or how it works. You may not even own or use a computer. But even if you don't know a modem from a mouse, the Internet knows you. Probably better than you care to be known. If you have ever applied for a driver's license, worked for the government, gone to college, married, purchased insurance, paid taxes or even just seen a doctor, the Internet system of computer networks, often referred to as "cyberspace," probably contains information about you - detailed information which you probably assumed was cloaked with some sort of privacy or limited in distribution to those for whom you volunteered the information. Guess again. More likely than not, transactions involving you have found their way without your knowledge or consent to...

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