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Recently, however, I came upon another good reason. It has nothing to do with the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government's chronic attempts at encroachment of privacy. Instead it is the corporate world's attempt to do the same. Consider the following paragraph from a standard Time Warner Cable contract for a Road Runner business account:
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