The pressure has been building for months, and the dark clouds around online privacy are finally releasing their rain.

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Online, Dark of the Moon is equally action-packed, and at times, even more intense.

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Parents increasingly recognise that their youngsters have digital expertise they lack but want to tap, and also that their best defence against their children falling foul of the dark side of the internet, such as online sexual predators, is to win their children's trust through honest conversation.

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All across the internet today, websites have gone dark to protest two bills in congress that aim at cracking down on online piracy.

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Paddy Power, an online bookmaker, is offering odds of 11 to 10 that dark matter will be found before black holes and 8 to 1 that black holes will be first.

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Because these giants of the internet have joined a mass online revolution of over 7, 000 other websites which will leave us in the dark for 24 hours.

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While the volume of geo-locked content online continues to rise, it is far outstripped by the volume of media in the dark corners of the internet.

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