Sentence:  Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds <WSD>operated</WSD> by people we don't know and will never meet. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.