Of course, the laptop that we were accessing content from was an arm's length away.

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And over the course of the decade from 2000 onwards social software allowed people to create content in competition with established media outlets, first through blogging and then through social networks.

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As was admitted by Google in response to an inquiry from the Commissioner for Data Protection, content data of unencrypted Wifi connections had also been recorded in the course of this activity.

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