The event left many people fearful of the amount of personal information they were ceding to a private, profit-hungry enterprise.

该事件让很多人都担心，他们是把个人信息给了一个私有的、惟利是图的公司。

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Between those two factors, organizations are ceding a risky amount of control over vital information.

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Issuance of these loans exploded just before the crisis, as buyout firms launched ever-larger takeovers and banks engaged in a destructive race to the bottom, ceding a huge amount of power to borrowers and ending up with large losses.

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