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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Lastly, the Social Media Week Film Panel has pointed out that women can have an impact just by passing on messages.

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He leans over and reaches down into the depths of his lawyer's case and suddenly the neurotransmitters in Flint's brain are passing frantic messages about a gun.

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Messages of tribute and condolences, by colleagues bereft at her passing, poured on her Facebook page.

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