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Communications of the ACM, Volume 51, Issue 6

Pages 82 - 87

https://doi.org/10.1145/1349026.1349043

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With access control and encryption no longer capable of protecting privacy, laws and systems are needed that hold people accountable for the misuse of personal information, whether public or secret.

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