Last month the company announced changes that are meant to improve its internal privacy and security practices, including enhancing training for employees on information-security awareness and requiring every engineering project leader to maintain a "privacy design document for each initiative they are working on, " Mr. Eustace said in the post.

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Yet, despite these and physical security safeguards the company had in place, information about their secret new project was leaked to the press.

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The Center's project on "Security and Democracy in Asia" will seek to provide information and analysis on the state of freedom, democracy, and American interests in Asia as the continent's 21st Century promises to be just as influential in world events as was its predecessor.

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The plan - the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CISP) - has emerged out of a 2012 pilot scheme known as Project Auburn.

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