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Letter: Welcome to the internet of pro-privacy states

Published 8 February 2017

From Scott Marshall, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

You report Elon Musk's ambition to launch 4425 satellites to provide internet access to the world (26 November 2016, p 7). Should he succeed, and should he base his business in a nation with little regard for monitoring the net (21 January, p 22), would traffic on his network evade all government monitoring?

Issue no. 3112 published 11 February 2017

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