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Google, Facebook et al: If You Really Cared About Freedom and Privacy [Time Machine]
This post was published on bitcoinmagazine.com on June 8th, 2013. The past few days we have seen shocking revelations from the sphere of digital communications. The Guardian published a leaked top-secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over the metadata (caller, receiver, time, location, duration) of all phone calls made through Verizon's networks....
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