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News story one

Wikileaks has published private cables that show that the U.S. thinks Iran has missiles that are able to hit capitals in europe. Other cables showed private comments made by diplomats that could embarrass the U.S. The cables could seriously damage U.S. relations with foreign countries. The cables also showed discussions that makes it seem like the U.S. diplomats are spies.
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News story two

David Norris who belongs to the BlueCava inc.  company. Wants to record peoples habits on their computers. He is planning to sell the information to advertising companies. These habits identify certain computers and creates a profile of who its user is. The advertising companies will use these profiles to target people to certain ads. This form of gathering information BlueCava is using is more popular because it is harder to block that cookies. This gathering of information is legal. The start of this company came from when the boss was selling software that could have no test run without the soon to be buyers copying it. BlueCava mostly collects information that is not very private, such as names. The technology they use has now opened up cell phones to advertising because cookies do not work on them , but this technology does work on phones.
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