Silicon Valley’s privacy efforts must be working, because our governments are freaking out

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Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
Silicon Valley’s privacy efforts must be working, because our governments are freaking out
If you’ve ever wondered what a government has left in its last breath of an argument it’s already lost, it’s almost certainly going to have something to do with “national security.

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