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Not only are they promoting email, operating systems and browsers, now they are tracking behaviour on the internewt to sauch an extent that after I recently searched for Garden Sheds, every second intenet ad I have been faced with has been a garden shed.<br \/>\nHow long befor the police are using similar technology to analyse our behaviour and shadow our thoughts 1984 style?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After IBM, Microsoft and Apple tried and failed to corner the market in everything electronic, now Google are having a go. 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