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Monitoring, Privacy and Security

Sometimes people do not want to share certain pieces of information with strangers, like their cell number, or their credit card number, or what they said in an intimate conversation with a loved one over instant messenger.

Sometimes companies and organizations want to collect personal information, to spy for the government or to obtain valuable marketing information.

Many technical processes have been created to obtain or block this sort of information flow.

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