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(commerce)
and governmental world is not (7) ……………. 
(anxiety)
to find out about us as individuals.”
Since then, stories about the unintended consequences of this 
traffic have been legion:
A Canadian funeral home obtained the names and addresses of 
•
people diagnosed with cancer, and contacted a Montreal woman on 
the list about buying a (8) ………….. 
(bury)
plot and pre-paid funeral 
services.
A candy company got hold of the names of people in a weight 
•
watchers program, and sent them chocolate bars in the mail.
Part of a Toronto woman's medical record was printed on the 
•
back of real estate (9) ………. 
(fly)
which were delivered to hundreds 
of mailboxes.
Participants in a medical research study on sickle cell anemia re-
•
ported an increase in difficulties getting employment and (10) ……………. 
(insure)
after they gave genetic samples to the researchers.
Phone Busters National Call Centre reports that over 7,600 
•
Canadians had their (11) …………. 
(identify)
stolen in 2002, with total 
losses of more than $8.5 million.
The (12) ………….. 
(humiliate)
, economic harm and discrimination 
suffered by these people raise serious questions about the impact of 
information technologies on personal autonomy, social relationships, 
and democracy.
Sociologist David Lyon argues that (13) ………… 
(survey)
enables 
a type of “social sorting” where computer code is used to classify 
groups of people in “ways that tend to reinforce social divisions.” 
Parliamentarian John Godfrey reminds us that a loss of privacy chills 
the exercise of other human rights, like freedom of speech or freedom 
of (14) ………….. 
(assemble)
.
Alan Westin contends that, if privacy is going to survive in the 
technological age, individuals, groups and institutions must be able 
to determine for themselves, when, how and to what extent informa-
tion about them is communicated to others.
Especially in a post-9/11 world, where (15) …………. 
(legal)
strug-
gle to balance security against civil liberties, privacy is likely to remain 
an important social and political issue. 
(Media Awareness Network, 
2010)

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