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Markey to NebuAd: "When did you stop beating the consumer?"

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The US House of Representatives' subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet held a hearing to look at the privacy implications of deep packet inspection, only to find out that Internet privacy can be a hard thing to define.Read More...

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