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2018: a big year for privacy

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Retracing the pivotal privacy and security-related events and ensuing issues from the past year.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 2
      February 2019
      112 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3310134
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