Every day that we waited was another day when millions of Americans were left unprotected.

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If left unprotected, these same wireless transmitters can be tapped by hackers to collect personal data, or even reprogram the implant.

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But many systems that were not deemed vital during a nuclear war, such as non-strategic command and control, were left unprotected.

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Skip forward four centuries and Edmund Burke, pondering how the French queen came to have been left unprotected from the revolutionary mob, was perhaps one of the first to declare chivalry to be dead.

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In addition to the 49% of schools which said they allowed the data to be taken home by staff, a further 4% said they left sensitive and unprotected data at unsecured locations in the school.

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Someone on your sales team left a flash drive full of unprotected documents at a bar.

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