There are some limited exceptions to the preceding broad legal shield, such as when a publisher establishes a duty of care by carrying out its own investigation or analysis of a product or service and explicitly holds itself out as having done so, but that does not appear to be the case here.

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Most consumers don't read website privacy policies, which often contain vague legal language designed to be as broad as possible to shield companies, rather than to specify exactly what information is being collected.

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At the very same time that they invoke broad secrecy claims to shield their conduct from outside scrutiny, it is Obama officials themselves who have continuously and quite selectively leaked information about these same programs to the US media.

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Sadly, the broad-based missile-defense-shield cause is not helped by the Pentagon's bureaucracy, either.

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New York has a shield law that gives reporters in that state broad protections from having to identify confidential sources.

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Lennon, more often than not, provided a defensive shield for his team-mates on the park and he has utilised those broad shoulders to deal with flak that has come his way.

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Samuels has been fighting the battle against dangerously broad patents for some time now, recently traveling to DC to support passage of the SHIELD Act (Saving High-tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes), a congressional bill that would impose heavy fines against so-called patent trolls.

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