Or how about the Daily Mail which used to have a deal with British Airways, every passenger got a copy of the paper?

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To be sure, unlimited access meant there were busy signals, lost E-mail and sudden disconnects to deal with, but the price was right, and as a result the dial-up industry has been growing at an exponential 25%-per-month rate (click here to read about the best ISPs).

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Cloud based computing has centralized e-mail data onto the servers of companies who are well positioned to deal with spam.

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But while the proposed new legislation would cover phone tapping and mail interceptions, it conspicuously fails to deal with other, no less intrusive, forms of electronic surveillance such as long-distance microphones, laser devices and the placing of bugs.

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