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How To Install GnuPG For Enhanced Data Privacy Protection

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There is a standard list of reasons why you might want to consider the use of encryption to ensure the privacy of your business and/or personal data. In the Resources section below, I've provided links to half a dozen sites, each explaining why such protection is a good thing.. . . There is a standard list of reasons why you might want to consider the use of encryption to ensure the privacy of your business and/or personal data. In the Resources section below, I've provided links to half a dozen sites, each explaining why such protection is a good thing.

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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