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Your Privacy! How Much Is It Worth?
Last week after reading about the new privacy rules on WhatsApp, I rushed to download Signal. I encouraged my family and friends to do the same. Why? Some tech companies are going too far and violating our right to privacy. I am in the advertising business you would think I would be interested in collecting data. No, I am not! It's my belief that if you should be able to choose to keep your data private. I don't want to force you to buy anything you don't want.

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