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The increasingly comprehensive collection and processing of data about all our activities is a major public concern. Some security and cryptography technologies are designed to provide a countervailing influence to the steady erosion of privacy. On balance, though, most of the technologies being deployed, as well as ongoing research and development, for example in data mining and geographical location of users, serve to reduce privacy. There is widespread concern about political aspects of the loss of privacy. However, most of the developments that reduce privacy are coming from corporations, which care about money, not politics.