Growing numbers of shops and other businesses are holding packages behind the counter for later collection.

ECONOMIST: Package pick-up services are set to prosper

To this list must now evidently be included Ames' very serious compromise of U.S. human intelligence collection activities and counter-intelligence programs designed to protect American secrets from Russian spies.

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Absent the elaborate use of personal counter-spy measures, preventing the collection of personal information is increasingly futile and doomed to fail.

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