While calls went out to reporters all over town, Sperling ran up and down the stairs to the fax machine, sending out his memo and Panetta's statement.

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In practice, this means that all telephone, text, fax and email messages passing in and out of Sweden will be subject to monitoring without a court order or warrant once the legislation comes into effect in January 2009.

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They can fill it out, sign it, and fax it back.

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And all of a sudden protected health information starts spilling out into this law firm's fax.

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He criticised Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and pointed out that guidelines banned the use of fax machines.

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Compulsory audits, he suggested, would not eliminate all problems but could cut out on incidences of sensitive information "being sent to the wrong fax machine or dropped in the street or left on an unencrypted memory stick".

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