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Companies Redesigning Search, Mobile Phones For Privacy Sake

A handful of startups are redesigning smartphones and Web browsers to give people more control over the kind of data companies collect. For example. Tom Simonite points to a company called Blackphone. The company will launch in March as an Android handset functioning like a regular smartphone, but has a series of modifications to protect the privacy and security of its owner.

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