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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Former Israeli Spies Work Top Jobs At Google, Facebook And Microsoft<br></h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">By Alan MacLeod - November 1, 2022</div></div>
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<p>A <em>MintPress</em> study has found that hundreds of former
agents of the notorious Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200, have
attained positions of influence in many of the world’s biggest tech
companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon.</p>
<p>The Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) Unit 8200 is infamous for surveilling the indigenous Palestinian population, amassing <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kompromat">kompromat</a> on
individuals for the purposes of blackmail and extortion. Spying on the
world’s rich and famous, Unit 8200 hit the headlines last year, after
the <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/pegasus-blue-wolf-israel-surveillance-experiment-went-global/278995/">Pegasus scandal</a> broke.
Former Unit 8200 officers designed and implemented software that spied
on tens of thousands of politicians and likely aided in the killing of
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.</p>
<h3>Google</h3>
<p>According to employment website <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?currentCompany=%5B%221441%22%5D&keywords=unit%208200&origin=FACETED_SEARCH&sid=BZ0">LinkedIn</a>,
there are currently at least 99 former Unit 8200 veterans currently
working for Google. This number almost certainly underestimates the
scale of the collaboration between the two organizations, however. For
one, this does not count former Google employees. Nor does it include
those without a public LinkedIn account, or those who do have an
account, but have not disclosed their previous affiliations with the
high-tech Israeli surveillance unit. This is likely to be a considerable
number, as agents are <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/2021-11-18/ty-article/.premium/an-israeli-intell-units-soldiers-are-sworn-to-secrecy-but-tell-all-on-linkedin/0000017f-e0e5-d568-ad7f-f3ef63350000">expressly prohibited</a> from
ever revealing their affiliation to Unit 8200. Thus, the figure of 99
only represents the number of current (or extremely recent) Google
employees who are brazenly flouting Israeli military law by including
the organization in their profiles.</p>
<p>Among these include:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Gavriel-Goidel-scaled.jpg">Gavriel Goidel</a>:
Between 2010 and 2016, Goidel served in Unit 8200, rising to become
Head of Learning at the organization, leading a large team of operatives
who sifted through intelligence data to “understand patterns of hostile
activists”, in his own words, transmitting that information to
superiors. Whether this included any of the over 1000 Gazan civilians
Israel killed during their 2014 bombardment of Gaza is unknown. Goidel
was recently appointed Head of Strategy and Operations at Google.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Untitled-design_edited.jpg">Jonathan Cohen</a>:
Cohen was a team leader during his time in Unit 8200 (2000-2003). He
has since spent more than 13 years working for Google in various senior
positions, and is currently Head of Insights, Data and Measurement.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Ori-Daniel.jpg">Ori Daniel</a>:
Between 2003 and 2006, Daniel was a technical operations specialist
with Unit 8200. After a stint with Palantir, he joined Google in 2018,
rising to become Head of Global Self-Service for Google Waze.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Ben-Bariach-scaled.jpg">Ben Bariach</a>:
For nearly five years between 2007 and 2011, Bariach served as a cyber
intelligence officer, where he “commanded strategic teams of elite
officers and professionals.”Since 2016, he has worked for Google.
Between 2018 and 2020, he concentrated on tackling “controversial
content, disinformation and cyber-security”. Today, he is a product
partnership manager for Google in London.</p>
<p>Notably, Google appears to not only accept former Unit 8200 agents
with open arms, but to actively recruit current members of the
controversial organization. For example, in October 2020, <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Gai-Gutherz-scaled.jpg">Gai Gutherz</a> left his job as a project leader at Unit 8200 and walked into a full time job at Google as a software engineer. In 2018, <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Lior-Liberman-scaled.jpg">Lior Liberman</a> appears
to have done the same thing, taking a position as a program manager at
Google after 4 years in military intelligence. Earlier this year, she
left Google and now works at Microsoft.</p>
<h3>Spying On Palestinians</h3>
<p>Some might contend that all Israelis are compelled to complete
military service, and so, therefore, what is the problem with young
people using the tech skills they learned in the IDF in civilian life.
In short, why is this Unit 8200-to-Silicon-Valley-pipeline a problem?</p>
<p>To begin with, Unit 8200 is not a run-of-the-mill regiment. Described
as “Israel’s NSA” and located on a gigantic base near Beer Sheva in the
Negev desert, Unit 8200 is the IDF’s largest unit – and one of its most
exclusive. The brightest young minds in the country <a href="https://www.battery.com/blog/secretive-israeli-army-unit-that-recruits-like-harvard/">compete</a> to be sent to serve at this <a href="https://www.battery.com/blog/secretive-israeli-army-unit-that-recruits-like-harvard/">Israeli Harvard</a>.
Although military service is compulsory for Jewish Israelis, Arab
citizens are strongly discouraged from joining the military and are
effectively blocked from Unit 8200. Indeed, they are the prime targets
of the apartheid state’s surveillance operations.</p>
<p><em>The</em> <em>Financial Times</em> <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/69f150da-25b8-11e5-bd83-71cb60e8f08c">called</a> Unit
8200 “Israel at its best and worst” – the centerpiece of both its
burgeoning high-tech industry and of its repressive state apparatus.
Unit 8200 veterans have gone on to produce many of the world’s most
downloaded apps, including maps service Waze, and communications app
Viber. But in 2014, 43 reservists, including several officers, <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/2014-09-12/ty-article/43-ex-unit-8200-soldiers-to-refuse-reserve-duty/0000017f-e210-d568-ad7f-f37b5b310000">sent</a> a
letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, informing him they would
no longer serve in its ranks due to its involvement in the political
persecution of Palestinians.</p>
<p>This consisted of using big data to compile dossiers on huge numbers
of the indigenous domestic population, including their medical history,
sex lives, and search histories, in order that it could be used for
extortion later. If a certain individual needed to travel across
checkpoints for crucial medical treatment, permission could be suspended
until they complied. Information, such as if a person was cheating on
their spouse or was homosexual, is also used as bait for blackmail. One
former Unit 8200 man <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/69f150da-25b8-11e5-bd83-71cb60e8f08c">said</a> that
as part of his training, he was assigned to memorize different Arabic
words for “gay” so that he could listen out for them in conversations.</p>
<p>Perhaps most importantly, the dissenters noted, Palestinians as a
whole are considered enemies of the state. “There’s no distinction
between Palestinians who are, and are not, involved in violence,” the
letter read. It also claims that much intelligence was gathered not in
service of Israel, but for powerful local politicians, who used it as
they saw fit.</p>
<p>The letter, despite being intentionally vague and not naming anyone,
was considered such a threat that Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon
announced that those who signed it would be “treated as criminals.”</p>
<p>In short, then, Unit 8200 is partially a spying and extortion
organization that uses its access to data to blackmail and extort
opponents of the apartheid state. That this organization has so many
operatives (literally hundreds) in key positions in big tech companies
that the world trusts with our most sensitive data (medical, financial,
etc.) should be of serious concern. This is especially true as they do
not appear to distinguish between “bad guys” and the rest of us. To Unit
8200, it seems, anyone is fair game.</p>
<h3>Project Nimbus</h3>
<p>Google already has a close relationship with the Israeli government.
Last year, along with Amazon, it signed a $1.2 billion contract with
Israel to provide military surveillance tech services – technology that
will allow the IDF to further unlawfully spy on Palestinians, destroy
their homes and expand illegal settlements.</p>
<p>The deal led to a staff revolt at both companies, with some 400
employees signing an open letter refusing to cooperate. Google forced
one Jewish employee, Ariel Koren, out of the door for her part in
resisting the deal. Koren later <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/google-whistleblower-ariel-koren-rejects-israel-project-nimbus/281940/">told <em>MintPress</em></a> that,</p>
<p><em>“Google systematically silences Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, and
Muslim voices concerned about Google’s complicity in violations of
Palestinian human rights – to the point of formally retaliating against
workers and creating an environment of fear…in my experience, silencing
dialogue and dissent in this way has helped Google protect its business
interest with the Israeli military and government.”</em></p>
<p>Another link between Google and the Israeli security state comes in
the form of cybersecurity group Team8, a collaboration between former
Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt, and three ex-Unit 8200 officers,
including its former leader, Nadav Zafrir. Team8’s mission, according to
a <a href="https://team8.vc/news/how-eric-schmidt-cisco-and-an-israeli-spymaster-launched-a-new-cybersecurity-incubator/">press release</a>, is, “To leverage the offensive and defensive skills of veterans of Israel’s cyberwar efforts to build new security startups.”</p>
<h3>Meta</h3>
<p>Meta – the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – has also recruited heavily from the ranks of Unit 8200.</p>
<p>Undoubtedly, one of the most influential people at Meta is <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Emi-Palmor-scaled.jpg">Emi Palmor</a>. Palmor is one of 23 individuals who sit on Facebook’s <a href="https://www.oversightboard.com/">Oversight Board</a>.
Described by Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook’s “Supreme Court”, the
Oversight Board collectively decides what content to accept and promote
on the platform, and what should be censored, deleted, and suppressed.</p>
<p>Palmor is a Unit 8200 veteran and later went on to become General
Director of the Israeli Ministry of Justice. In this role, she directly
oversaw the stripping away of Palestinian rights and created a so-called
“Internet Referral Unit” which would find and aggressively push
Facebook to delete Palestinian content on its platform that the Israeli
government objected to.</p>
<p>Other ex-Unit 8200 hold influential positions. For instance, <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Eyal-Klein-scaled.jpg">Eyal Klein</a>,
the head of data science for Facebook Messenger since 2020, served for
fully six years as a captain in the controversial Israeli military unit.
Today, he is tasked with handling privacy issues for billions of users
of Meta’s platforms.</p>
<p>Another former Unit 8200 leader now working in big tech in America is <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Eli-Zeitlin-scaled.jpg">Eli Zeitlin</a>.
Two years after leaving Unit 8200, Zeitlin was employed by Microsoft
and rose to become the corporation’s senior development lead, becoming,
in his own words, the “go to person in file processing and cloud
protection” for the company. For the last six years, however, he has
worked for Meta, where he leads the company in “prevent[ing] data misuse
by third parties” – exactly the sort of operation that current Unit
8200 officers likely continue to carry out.</p>
<p>Other Unit 8200 veterans working in influential roles for Facebook include <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Tom-Chet-scaled.jpg">Tom Chet</a>, head of activations and production for North American small business; <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Gilad-Turbahn-scaled.jpg">Gilad Turbahn</a>, a manager for Meta; engineering manager <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Ron-Ranen-Goren-scaled.jpg">Ranen Goren</a>; software engineers <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Gil-Osher.jpg">Gil Osher</a> and <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Yoav-Goldstein-1-scaled.jpg">Yoav Goldstein</a>; security engineering manager <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Dana-Baril.jpg">Dana Baril</a>; and software developer <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Omer-Goldberg-scaled.jpg">Omer Goldberg</a>. Meanwhile, according to <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Yonatan-Ramot-1-scaled.jpg">Yonatan Ramot</a>’s
LinkedIn biography, earlier this year, he was simultaneously working
for Meta while still an active duty manager in Unit 8200.</p>
<h3>Spying On The World</h3>
<p>Why is having former Unit 8200 officers in charge of security,
development and software design at some of the world’s most important
communications companies a problem? To start with, one of the military
unit’s primary functions is to use their tech know how to carry out
spying operations across the world. As Israeli newspaper <em>Haaretz</em> <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-10-20/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israels-cyber-spy-industry-aids-dictators-hunt-dissidents-and-gays/0000017f-e9a9-dc91-a17f-fdadde240000">noted</a> in
an investigation, “Israel has become a leading exporter of tools for
spying on civilians,” selling invasive surveillance software to dozens
of governments, many of them among the world’s worst human rights
abusers. In Indonesia, for instance, the software was used to create a
database of gay people.</p>
<p>Unit 8200 also spies on Americans. Whistleblower Edward Snowden
revealed that the NSA regularly passes on the data and communications of
U.S. citizens to the Israeli group. “I think that’s amazing…It’s one of
the biggest abuses we’ve seen,” Snowden <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/opinion/israels-nsa-scandal.html?emc=edit_ty_20140917&nl=opinion&nlid=41252619&_r=1">said</a>.</p>
<p>The most well-known example of Israeli spyware is <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/pegasus-just-tip-israel-unit-8200-toka-spyware-whitney-webb/278042/">Pegasus</a>,
a creation of NSO Group, a technically private company staffed
primarily by Unit 8200 veterans. The software was used to eavesdrop on
more than 50,000 prominent people around the world. This included dozens
of human rights defenders, nearly 200 journalists, several Arab royals,
and over 600 politicians, including French president Emmanuel Macron,
Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan and Iraqi President Barham Salih.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi used the software to
dig up dirt on his personal opponents. Other members of his government
hacked the phone of a woman accusing the Chief Justice of India of
raping her.</p>
<p>Pegasus was also <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/pegasus-just-tip-israel-unit-8200-toka-spyware-whitney-webb/278042/">found</a> installed on murdered <em>Washington Post</em> journalist
Jamal Khashoggi, implying that NSO was collaborating with the Saudi
government, aiding them to silence dissent and criticism.</p>
<p>Pegasus works by sending a text message to a targeted device. If a
user clicks on the link provided, it will automatically download the
spyware. Once infected, it is possible to track an individual’s location
and movements, take screenshots, turn on the phone’s camera and
microphone, retrieve messages and steal passwords.</p>
<p>But while the NSO’s Pegasus made worldwide news, another firm, more
worrying and dangerous, has flown under the radar. That firm is Toka,
established by former Israeli defense minister and prime minister, Ehud
Barak, with the help of a number of Unit 8200 officers. Toka can
infiltrate any device connected to the internet, including Amazon
echoes, televisions, fridges and other home appliances. Last year,
Journalist Whitney Webb <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/pegasus-just-tip-israel-unit-8200-toka-spyware-whitney-webb/278042/">told</a> <em>MintPress</em> that the company effectively acts as a front group for the Israeli government’s spying operations.</p>
<p>A third private spy firm filled with Unit 8200 graduates is Candiru.
The Tel Aviv-based company barely exists, officially. It does not have a
website. And if you go to its <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2019-01-04/ty-article/.premium/top-secret-israeli-cyberattack-firm-revealed/0000017f-e36d-d38f-a57f-e77ff84b0000">headquarters</a>, there is no indication that you are in the right place. Nevertheless, it is <a href="https://www.securityweek.com/secretive-israeli-exploit-company-behind-wave-zero-day-exploits">widely believed</a> that Candiru was behind malware attacks observed in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Qatar and Uzbekistan.</p>
<p>The company is named after a parasitic Amazonian fish that is said
(apocryphally) to swim up human urine streams and enter the body via the
urethra. It is an apt analogy for a firm that spends its time finding
security flaws in Android and iOS operating systems and browsers like
Chrome, Firefox and Safari, using this knowledge to spy on unsuspecting
targets.</p>
<p>The utility of these technically private Israeli spy groups filled to
the brim with ex-military intelligence figures is that it allows the
government some measure of plausible deniability when carrying out
attacks against foreign nations. As <em>Haaretz</em> <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/2021-06-29/ty-article/idf-vs-nso-8200-battle-israel-cyber-talent-getting-dark/0000017f-da7d-d432-a77f-df7f77900000">explained</a>,
“Who owns [these spying companies] isn’t clear, but their employees
aren’t soldiers. Consequently, they may solve the army’s problem, even
if the solution they provide is imperfect.”</p>
<h3>Microsoft</h3>
<p>Data from LinkedIn suggests that there are at least 166 former Unit
8200 members who went on to work for Microsoft. In addition to those
already mentioned, others include <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Ayelet-Steinitz.jpg">Ayelet Steinitz</a>, Microsoft’s former Head of Global Strategic Alliances, Senior Software Engineer <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Tomer-Lev-1-scaled.jpg">Tomer Lev</a>, and Senior Product Managers, <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Untitled-design-1_edited-2.jpg">Maayan Mazig</a>, <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Or-Serok-Jeppa-scaled.jpg">Or Serok-Jeppa</a> and <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Yuval-Derman-1-scaled.jpg">Yuval Derman.</a></p>
<p>Notably, the Seattle-based giant also heavily leans on ex-Unit 8200
professionals to design and upkeep its global security apparatus.
Examples of this phenomenon include Security Researchers <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Untitled-design_edited-2.jpg">Lia Yeshoua</a>, <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Yogev-Shitrit--scaled.jpg">Yogev Shitrit</a>, <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/guni-merom--scaled.jpg">Guni Merom</a>, <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Meitar-Pinto-scaled.jpg">Meitar Pinto</a> and <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Yaniv-Carmel-scaled.jpg">Yaniv Carmel</a>, Threat Protection Software Engineer <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Gilron-Tsabkevich--scaled.jpg">Gilron Tsabkevich</a>, Data Scientist <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Danielle-Poleg--scaled.jpg">Danielle Poleg</a>, Threat Intelligence Officer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWLa_wmG-OM">Itai</a> <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Itai-Grady--scaled.jpg">Grady</a> and Security Product Manager <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Liat-Lisha-.jpg">Liat Lisha</a>.
In Merom, Carmel and Pinto’s cases, they went straight from Unit 8200
into Microsoft’s team, again suggesting that Microsoft is actively
recruiting from the regiment.</p>
<p>Other Microsoft security products such as Microsoft Defender
Antivirus and Microsoft Azure secure cloud computing are also designed
and maintained by ex-Unit 8200 individuals. These include former Senior
Architect <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Michael-Bargury-.jpg">Michael Bargury</a>, Principal Software Engineering Manager <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Shlomi-Haba-scaled.jpg">Shlomi Haba</a>, Senior Software Engineering Managers <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Untitled-design-1_edited-3.jpg">Yaniv Yehuda</a>, <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Assaf-Israel-1-scaled.jpg">Assaf Israel</a> and <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Michael-Ben-Yaacov-1-scaled.jpg">Michal Ben Yaacov</a>, Senior Product Manager <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Tal-Rosler-1-scaled.jpg">Tal Rosler</a>, Software Engineer <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Adi-Griever-1-scaled.jpg">Adi Griever</a>, and Product Manager <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Yael-Genut-1-scaled.jpg">Yael Genut</a>.</p>
<p>This is notable, as it was <a href="https://www.industrialcybersecuritypulse.com/threats-vulnerabilities/throwback-attack-duqu-one-of-the-most-skilled-mysterious-and-powerful-apt-groups/">reported</a> that
malware likely produced by Unit 8200 was used to attack Microsoft
products, such as its Windows operating system. It reportedly exploited
loopholes it found to attack control systems, delete hard drives, and
shut down key systems, such as the energy infrastructure of Iran.</p>
<h3>Big Tech, Big Governments</h3>
<p>None of this means that all or even any of the individuals are moles –
or even anything but model employees today. But the sheer amount of
people graduating from an organization such as Unit 8200 and going on to
influence the world’s largest communications companies certainly causes
concern.</p>
<p>Unit 8200 certainly has a reputation for excellence in its field. The
trouble is that their craft includes spying, extortion, gross
violations of personal rights, and the hacking of exactly the tech
companies that are now hiring them en masse. This does not appear to be a
poacher-turned-gamekeeper scenario, however; there is no indication
Silicon Valley is hiring whistleblowers.</p>
<p>Of course, Israel is far from the only country that attempts to spy
on foes or manipulate the public. However, former spies from adversary
countries such as Russia, Venezuela or Iran are not being hired in their
hundreds to design, maintain and oversee the largest channels of public
communication. In fact, this study could find no examples of ex-FSB
(Russia) ex-SEBIN (Venezuela) or former agents from the Iranian Ministry
of Intelligence working at Silicon Valley corporations.</p>
<p><em>MintPress</em> has previously documented how, in recent years, big tech companies like <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/twitter-hiring-alarming-number-spooks-secret-agents/281114/">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-ex-cia-agents-deciding-facebook-content-policy/281307/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/national-security-search-engine-google-ranks-cia-agents/281490/">Google</a>, <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/">TikTok</a> and <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/jessica-ashooh-reddit-national-security-state-plant/277639/">Reddit</a> have
hired hundreds of spooks from the CIA, NSA, FBI, Secret Service, NATO,
and other intelligence agencies. The fact that Unit 8200 is also a
recruitment reserve underlines how strong an ally Israel is considered
in the West.</p>
<p>However, it also highlights the increasing intersection between
Silicon Valley and big government and further undermines any pretense
that big tech companies are on our side in the fight to secure and
maintain privacy online.</p>
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