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When it comes to influencing the national conversation, driving news coverage and letting people beat up on each other, Twitter punches way above its weight.

I used to say Twitter was the new AP, but thats far too limited a description. The loudest voices on the social media network may be liberal elites and other activists, but it is, as a certain richest man in the world says, the new public square.

And thats why the ideologically charged debate over Twitters obvious shortcomings is so crucial. The stakes are enormous.

My own feelings on the addictive appits vital, its fun, and too often a toxic sewerpale in comparison to the conservative anger against the Big Tech outlet. And many on the Right are downright excited that Elon Musk just bought himself a seat on the board.

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In becoming Twitters largest shareholder by buying 9 percent of its stock, for under $3 billion, Musk even got the CEO to praise him as the companys "intense critic." What management is hoping, of course, is that he doesnt mount a takeover bid.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk reacts at a post-launch news conference after the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., March 2, 2019. (REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo)

Former chief executive Jack Dorsey has admitted that the staff is left-leaning, and it isnt hard to decipher why conservatives feel dissed and shadow-banned.

Exhibit A, above all, is the permanent ban on Donald Trump. Congressional Republicans such as Lauren Boebert are already urging Musk to reinstate Trump, though at the moment he doesnt have the power to do so.

And then theres the outrageous decision in 2020 to ban any sharing of the New York Post report on Hunter Bidens laptopwhich Dorsey admitted was a mistake. The story has now belatedly been confirmed by The New York Times and The Washington Post. Now its deemed kosher for public discussion.

Conservatives, and others, also admire Musk as the entrepreneur who founded both Tesla and SpaceX.

Politicos Jack Shafer calls Musk "the anti-media media mogul. Most vanity press moguls praise the media. Musk mostly damns." Indeed, he loves to wage online warfare, but he also has a Trumpian knack for tweeting all kinds of thoughts, such as comparing Justin Trudeau to a certain 1930s German dictator, then adding, "An evolutionary asymmetry helpful to survive, but counterproductive when survival is not at stake."

Elon Musk declared hes "not perverted enough to be on CNN" as the liberal network struggles through a series of embarrassing scandals. (REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo)

The other night, acting like hes already in charge, Musk posted a poll asking users whether Twitter should allow them to edit their messages, which is now verboten.

Musk, who has 80 million followers, is promising big changes, and just last week he said Twitter is "failing to adhere to free speech principles," which "undermines democracy." Hes also asked, "Why is the traditional media such a relentless hatestream"?

That brings us to the key 280 characters or so. The liberal view, as reflected in a Washington Post news story, is that"some inside Twitter worry Musk may push Twitter in a libertarian direction, away from blocking or restricting accounts that cause social harm."

The conundrum, which Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg also regularly faces, is that many on the Left want more active content moderation to block lies, harassment and bullying. But many othersand not only left-wingersfear this leads to censorship and blatant bias based on amorphous standards.

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For my money, Musk is the most interesting CEOand maybe the most interesting dudeon the planet. Who else is talking about living on Mars, challenged Vladimir Putin to physical combat over Ukraine, smoked dope with Joe Rogan, announced on "SNL" that he has Aspergers, and is the worlds richest person to boot? Not to mention that his girlfriend is Grimes, who drew flak for telling Vanity Fair that at times he "lives below the poverty line" and wouldnt buy her a new mattress.

FILE PHOTO: Tesla Inc. founder Elon Musk speaks in Hawthorne, California, U.S. December 18, 2018. (Robyn Beck/Pool via REUTERS//File Photo)

There may well be a personal motive in the Twitter move as well. Four years ago, Musk settled fraud charges with the SEC after tweeting that he was thinking of taking Tesla privatehe claimed it was a jokeand had to step down as chairman and obtain advance approval for tweets. Last month he went to court to scrap the settlement.

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If you want to get a sense of Musks political leanings, try this, from a (real) interview with the Babylon Bee:

"At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue."

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No wonder the anti-wokesters are rooting for the mercurial Musk.

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COULD you imagine a better name for someone making their mark out of being the Little Guy than Chris Smalls? Its a story ready-made for a Netflix series. So its curious its success has taken Amazon the company borne out of peddling cheap books by surprise.

Smalls is the leader of the tech giants very first union. After a relentless campaign complete with free doughnuts doled out at the nearby bus stop, the workers for his warehouse voted to unionise.

Amazon has made a matzah off of the backs of poorly-paid factory workers for years. Weve seen a handful of investigations into the working conditions and heard about the company spying on its staff to check if social-distancing rules were being broken.

The surprise for Amazon should be that it took this long. Incredibly, they are still playing catch-up.

The tech giant is reported to be hatching a plan to simply bury the problem by banning the word union and other key words compensation and slave labour on an internal social media app set to launch in the coming months.

If the idea was to boost employee satisfaction, this isnt it.

Tech giants are facing a reckoning on multiple fronts, but the responsibilities owed to their employees are often downgraded in favour of dealing with antitrust and transparency concerns.

In the UK, Uber drivers have been in a face-off with the tech platform over the shoddy amount of compensation they get per ride. Here, at least, a competitive market has benefited them. Even after a deal with the once all-powerful GMB Union, Uber has struggled to keep drivers on the platform.

Last year, I bore witness to an anecdote made possible by exceptional timing. Only moments after leaving an event hosted by Uber I heard two women complaining about how hard it was to get a ride lately. The friends refrain is now ubiquitous in Central London on a Saturday night: Ill try Bolt.

The unions failure to get their hooks into the staff of Big Tech is on one level, astonishing. Both their waning power and the fierce competition in these markets have protected Silicon Valley bosses from this particular assault. But this reprieve may be over.

Over the pandemic, the capitals streets became flooded with a kind of food ninja. The all-in-black, helmeted moped driver armed with a pizza box. For these drivers, speed is key. While they are not rewarded explicitly for speed, the quicker they deliver one order, the quicker they can get to the next and the more they earn. The same is true, of course, for taxi drivers. But where cabbies would have to deal with irate passengers in a jerky journey, food delivery drivers only have the integrity of a margherita to contend with.

The creation of super-fast grocery deliveries has put speed as the competitive factor. What happens if a moped drives into a toddler because they were trying to earn an extra 5 that hour? Their employer will be hauled in front of either a legal court or the one of public condemnation for creating an environment incentivising dangerous driving.

Tech companies have benefited from a race-to-the-bottom on prices, but now theyre struggling with employees pushing back against the complicated working conditions that are the corollary effect of those low prices. Unions are an age-old defence for workers. London can still be brought to a standstill by a handful of disgruntled tube drivers. So it shouldnt have taken a man with a name ready-made for being the Underdog for Amazon and its ilk to be alive to the threat.

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Shares of U.S.-listed Chinese tech companies Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. BABA, JD.Com Inc. JD, Tencent Holdings ADR TCEHY and BaiduInc. BIDU traded significantly higher in Hong Kong on Monday (Hong Kong time).

The rally was spurred by investors cheering as Beijing eased an audit dispute that has threatened U.S.-listed Chinese companies with delisting.

The Macro Factors: The Hang Seng Index was up 1.15% to 22,283 at 10.51 a.m. local time. Meanwhile, the Tech Index jumped nearly 3%.

On Saturday, in the revised draft rules, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said that it withdrew a requirement that only Chinese regulators conduct on-site audit inspections of Chinese companies listed overseas.

It said the changes were made to accommodate the new circumstances and developments concerning overseas securities listings and offerings.

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In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic locked many inside their homes, seniors quickly became some of the most isolated. Older adults found themselves unable to visit with loved ones they relied on. In the past year, several industry behemoths, including Google, Apple, and Amazon, have announced products and services geared toward helping older adults, once the realm of [more niche companies] The draw is clear: Voice assistants, especially, have made access easier for less-tech-savvy consumers.

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In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic locked many inside their homes, seniors quickly became some of the most isolated. Especially susceptible to the virus, and still without a vaccine, older adults found themselves unable to visit with loved ones they relied on.

Some tech companies stepped in with an offer to help.

In May of that year, Google announced that it would give away 1,000 of its Nest Hub Max voice assistants to retirement communities in Washington state. The same month as Googles announcement, Amazon announced that it was donating $5million in smart speakers to health care workers, students, and retirement communities.

The donation provided Echo Dot voice assistants for senior homes in Washington state and California to help residents become more independent, while staying informed, engaged and connected with friends, family and caregivers, the company said in a blog post.

And just this week, Amazon announced plans to bring Alexa to even more senior living communities. The program, part of its Alexa Smart Properties initiative, will allow community operators to install Alexa devices and make announcements to residents through them, as well as to streamline activities like check-ins, field requests for maintenance, and administrative tasksenabling associates to save time and increase productivity, according to the companys announcement.

Those arent the only initiatives Big Tech is exploring for seniors. In the past year, several industry behemothsincluding Google, Apple, and Amazonhave announced products and services geared toward helping older adults, once the realm of more niche companies.

For those larger companies, theres an obvious market incentive. Seniors, in general, adopt tech at a low rate, but that rate has been accelerating in recent years. Voice assistants, especially, have made access easier for less-tech-savvy consumers.

Voice technology availability, ease of access, and who has all the moneythat has created interest in this market, said Laurie Orlov, who heads the analyst site Aging and Health Technology Watch and noted the trend in a blog post earlier this month.

The draw for seniors is clear. Devices like voice assistants and wearables are simple to use and can give some peace of mind to family members, who can chat over video calls and even digitally monitor loved ones behavior. Older adults can also more easily connect to emergency services in case of an accident.

But those innovations have also sparked some concerns among privacy and health care advocates, who wonder about the cost and pitfalls of remotely monitoring loved ones. Some of the core worries: Whos listening in on these products? Are seniors giving proper consent to being monitored? And what happens to caregiving in a more automated future?

With panic about older loved ones spreading in the past year, tech companies have been promoting their devices as at least a partial solution, releasing products for monitoring safety and facilitating communication with older adults.

Apple, for example, announced in 2018 that its Apple Watch would use motion detection to learn when a person wearing the watch falls. While it could be helpful to anyone with concerns, it was clearly targeted: The service is turned on by default for anyone over 55 years old.

This year, the company went even further. Included in its latest iPhone operating system, iOS15, are algorithms for determining the steadiness of a persons gait and potential for a fall in the future.

The company also released an update for its AirPods called Conversation Boost, which can be used to help the hard of hearing by increasing the volume of a conversation.

Last month, Amazon announced plans to offer a robot dog called Astro.

Other companies, like Google and Amazon, are hitching their plans for elder care to voice assistants. When Google announced its partnership to send Nest Hub Max devices to senior homes, it went beyond just giving away the hardwarethe company said it also simplified the software to make it easier for seniors to use.

Last year, Amazon announced a service for its Alexa device line called Care Hub. The service lets caregivers remotely see how an Alexa device is being used, or even sends them an alert if the person theyre looking after doesnt use their device by a certain time.

The company expanded on the service earlier this year, launching a monthly $19.99 subscription service called Alexa Together, which includes an emergency response call service that can be triggered if a wearable device detects a fall or by the phrase, Alexa, call for help. And the companies seem far from done with services for the elderly.

Last month, Amazon announced plans to offer a robot dog called Astro. The robot, equipped with a screen, microphone, and camera, is designed to wheel around a persons home and respond to commands.

In its announcement, Amazon said it imagined the robot being placed in the homes of seniors, giving them reminders during the day and reporting back to family members about their well-being through integration with Alexa Together.

In short, companies are following the money, Orlov said. Theres a relatively untapped market in older adults, and one with command of more dollars than younger people.

Money talks.

Laurie Orlov, Aging and Health Technology Watch

Thats why, she said. Money talks.

Smaller tech companies have been carving out niche products directly targeting the elderly for some time. But only relatively recently have bigger players shown an interest in the older market.

In her blog post, Orlov pointed out that just a decade ago, the tech industry seemed unconcerned with seniors needs.

But as the baby boomer population ages, Orlov points out, more of them are looking for ways to stay safe and healthy, while loved ones are searching for ways to watch over them. The pandemic, especially, exposed just how great that need was.

It was a major embarrassment, really, the lack of connectivity of older people during the pandemic and especially during the time they were supposed to register to get a vaccine, Orlov told The Markup.

Clara Berridge, a professor at the University of Washington who researches older adults and technology, said theres another reason why the devices have become so popular. Many people want to stay in their homes as they age, but because of a dire lack of home-care infrastructure in the United States, people are sometimes turning to the only options they can find and affordconsumer tracking devices. Its not necessarily comparable service, Berridge said, but its an affordable option.

People are mostly on their own to figure out elder care.

Clara Berridge, University of Washington

We have a very fragmented long-term care system in this country, if you can even call it a system, she said. So people are mostly on their own to figure out elder care.

Its not just families but also care facilities themselves. Even well before COVID-19, businesses, nonprofits, and retirement communities had been experimenting with providing voice assistants to care home residents.

That trend has since accelerated. I think the turn to institutions is intensified with COVID and concerns around whats going on in facilities, Berridge said.

While devices can provide a sense of connection, some privacy advocates worry about what sorts of data are being collected through those devicesespecially since few consumers, in general, will wade through a complex privacy policy or tinker with settings, and even fewer seniors are likely to doso.

I think youre dealing with a population and situation where people are not necessarily even going to exercise the limited control theyre given over how data is collected, said Hayley Tsukayama, a legislative activist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

I think youre dealing with a population where people are not necessarily even going to exercise the limited control theyre given over how data is collected.

Hayley Tsukayama, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Concerns about where voice assistant data is traveling arent new, but having someone close, like a relative, monitoring behavior brings its own concerns. Its not always clear, for one, that seniors are consenting to the monitoring.

Amazons Alexa Together service requires an opt-in from both the owner of the Alexa device doing the monitoring and the mobile app it is transmitting data to. But as some observers pointed out last year, it seems simple for someone to opt-in for someone by setting up an account for them and signing up for the service.

Berridge points out that even a caretaker acting with good intentions can, through benevolentcoercion, subtly pressure an older loved one into using a device they might not be comfortable with. A caregiver tends to have quite a bit of power over somebody, she said.

If a loved one is suffering from a condition like dementia, that could change the ethical calculus too, and there may not be a tidy answer to whether that person is consenting to family monitoring, Tsukayama said.

How do you weigh, as the child of someone, where you think their mind is and their overall ability to understand a situation and protect themselves in a situation, and how they feel about being watched? she said.

Amazon, for its part, says its care app masks some types of data. A remote watcher would only be able to see that a loved one was using Alexa for entertainment, for example, but not see whether a song or podcast was played. But its still really fine-grained data, Tsukayama said.

Whether in homes or care facilities, Berridge said, theres also a risk that people will choose to rely on cheap surveillance devices over human labor. Theres already a woefully insufficient number of care workers in the country, she said, and for some operators, placing an Amazon Echo in every room may look like a savvy solution to understaffing. The conditions are ripe for that, and they have been for a long time, she said.

Tech companies have good reason to care about what seniors think about privacy. An AARP survey published this year found that, for people over 50, privacy was one of the biggest barriers to adopting new technology, with about 34 percent of people surveyed citing it as a concern.

Apple didnt respond to a request for comment. A Google spokesperson referred back to the companys initial announcement of its care facility partnership, which notes the devices were provided in a way that preserves privacy for the residents, as the devices are managed on Nests fleet management system and run in a signed out mode, meaning no audio is stored and all activity is anonymous.

Beatrice Geoffrin, director of Amazon Alexa, said in an emailed statement to The Markup that privacy is foundational to its products, including Astro and Alexa Together.

Astro is built with multiple layers of privacy to provide customers with transparency and control, and we designed Alexa Together to give both the care recipient and caregiver peace of mind, without compromising privacy, the statement said. In order to even use Alexa Together, the care recipient has to first approve the connection with their caregiver, and can also end that connection at any time.

The use of devices for elder care seems likely to expand, even if the pandemic is brought under control. Berridge points out that its an example of disaster surveillanceinstalling surveillance devices during an emergency, only for the tools to stick around well after that emergency subsides.

I dont think that theyre going to go away, and I think its going to enable the scope of what families are doing and what facilities are doing with the tech, Berridge said. More surveillance of the workers and more surveillance of the residents.

Written by: Colin Lecher

Originally published here: https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/10/28/how-big-tech-is-pitching-digital-elder-care-to-families

In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic locked many inside their homes, seniors quickly became some of the most isolated. Especially susceptible to the virus, and still without a vaccine, older adults found themselves unable to visit with loved ones they relied on.

Some tech companies stepped in with an offer to help.

In May of that year, Google announced that it would give away 1,000 of its Nest Hub Max voice assistants to retirement communities in Washington state. The same month as Googles announcement, Amazon announced that it was donating $5million in smart speakers to health care workers, students, and retirement communities.

The donation provided Echo Dot voice assistants for senior homes in Washington state and California to help residents become more independent, while staying informed, engaged and connected with friends, family and caregivers, the company said in a blog post.

And just this week, Amazon announced plans to bring Alexa to even more senior living communities. The program, part of its Alexa Smart Properties initiative, will allow community operators to install Alexa devices and make announcements to residents through them, as well as to streamline activities like check-ins, field requests for maintenance, and administrative tasksenabling associates to save time and increase productivity, according to the companys announcement.

Those arent the only initiatives Big Tech is exploring for seniors. In the past year, several industry behemothsincluding Google, Apple, and Amazonhave announced products and services geared toward helping older adults, once the realm of more niche companies.

For those larger companies, theres an obvious market incentive. Seniors, in general, adopt tech at a low rate, but that rate has been accelerating in recent years. Voice assistants, especially, have made access easier for less-tech-savvy consumers.

Voice technology availability, ease of access, and who has all the moneythat has created interest in this market, said Laurie Orlov, who heads the analyst site Aging and Health Technology Watch and noted the trend in a blog post earlier this month.

The draw for seniors is clear. Devices like voice assistants and wearables are simple to use and can give some peace of mind to family members, who can chat over video calls and even digitally monitor loved ones behavior. Older adults can also more easily connect to emergency services in case of an accident.

But those innovations have also sparked some concerns among privacy and health care advocates, who wonder about the cost and pitfalls of remotely monitoring loved ones. Some of the core worries: Whos listening in on these products? Are seniors giving proper consent to being monitored? And what happens to caregiving in a more automated future?

With panic about older loved ones spreading in the past year, tech companies have been promoting their devices as at least a partial solution, releasing products for monitoring safety and facilitating communication with older adults.

Apple, for example, announced in 2018 that its Apple Watch would use motion detection to learn when a person wearing the watch falls. While it could be helpful to anyone with concerns, it was clearly targeted: The service is turned on by default for anyone over 55 years old.

This year, the company went even further. Included in its latest iPhone operating system, iOS15, are algorithms for determining the steadiness of a persons gait and potential for a fall in the future.

The company also released an update for its AirPods called Conversation Boost, which can be used to help the hard of hearing by increasing the volume of a conversation.

Last month, Amazon announced plans to offer a robot dog called Astro.

Other companies, like Google and Amazon, are hitching their plans for elder care to voice assistants. When Google announced its partnership to send Nest Hub Max devices to senior homes, it went beyond just giving away the hardwarethe company said it also simplified the software to make it easier for seniors to use.

Last year, Amazon announced a service for its Alexa device line called Care Hub. The service lets caregivers remotely see how an Alexa device is being used, or even sends them an alert if the person theyre looking after doesnt use their device by a certain time.

The company expanded on the service earlier this year, launching a monthly $19.99 subscription service called Alexa Together, which includes an emergency response call service that can be triggered if a wearable device detects a fall or by the phrase, Alexa, call for help. And the companies seem far from done with services for the elderly.

Last month, Amazon announced plans to offer a robot dog called Astro. The robot, equipped with a screen, microphone, and camera, is designed to wheel around a persons home and respond to commands.

In its announcement, Amazon said it imagined the robot being placed in the homes of seniors, giving them reminders during the day and reporting back to family members about their well-being through integration with Alexa Together.

In short, companies are following the money, Orlov said. Theres a relatively untapped market in older adults, and one with command of more dollars than younger people.

Money talks.

Laurie Orlov, Aging and Health Technology Watch

Thats why, she said. Money talks.

Smaller tech companies have been carving out niche products directly targeting the elderly for some time. But only relatively recently have bigger players shown an interest in the older market.

In her blog post, Orlov pointed out that just a decade ago, the tech industry seemed unconcerned with seniors needs.

But as the baby boomer population ages, Orlov points out, more of them are looking for ways to stay safe and healthy, while loved ones are searching for ways to watch over them. The pandemic, especially, exposed just how great that need was.

It was a major embarrassment, really, the lack of connectivity of older people during the pandemic and especially during the time they were supposed to register to get a vaccine, Orlov told The Markup.

Clara Berridge, a professor at the University of Washington who researches older adults and technology, said theres another reason why the devices have become so popular. Many people want to stay in their homes as they age, but because of a dire lack of home-care infrastructure in the United States, people are sometimes turning to the only options they can find and affordconsumer tracking devices. Its not necessarily comparable service, Berridge said, but its an affordable option.

People are mostly on their own to figure out elder care.

Clara Berridge, University of Washington

We have a very fragmented long-term care system in this country, if you can even call it a system, she said. So people are mostly on their own to figure out elder care.

Its not just families but also care facilities themselves. Even well before COVID-19, businesses, nonprofits, and retirement communities had been experimenting with providing voice assistants to care home residents.

That trend has since accelerated. I think the turn to institutions is intensified with COVID and concerns around whats going on in facilities, Berridge said.

While devices can provide a sense of connection, some privacy advocates worry about what sorts of data are being collected through those devicesespecially since few consumers, in general, will wade through a complex privacy policy or tinker with settings, and even fewer seniors are likely to doso.

I think youre dealing with a population and situation where people are not necessarily even going to exercise the limited control theyre given over how data is collected, said Hayley Tsukayama, a legislative activist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

I think youre dealing with a population where people are not necessarily even going to exercise the limited control theyre given over how data is collected.

Hayley Tsukayama, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Concerns about where voice assistant data is traveling arent new, but having someone close, like a relative, monitoring behavior brings its own concerns. Its not always clear, for one, that seniors are consenting to the monitoring.

Amazons Alexa Together service requires an opt-in from both the owner of the Alexa device doing the monitoring and the mobile app it is transmitting data to. But as some observers pointed out last year, it seems simple for someone to opt-in for someone by setting up an account for them and signing up for the service.

Berridge points out that even a caretaker acting with good intentions can, through benevolentcoercion, subtly pressure an older loved one into using a device they might not be comfortable with. A caregiver tends to have quite a bit of power over somebody, she said.

If a loved one is suffering from a condition like dementia, that could change the ethical calculus too, and there may not be a tidy answer to whether that person is consenting to family monitoring, Tsukayama said.

How do you weigh, as the child of someone, where you think their mind is and their overall ability to understand a situation and protect themselves in a situation, and how they feel about being watched? she said.

Amazon, for its part, says its care app masks some types of data. A remote watcher would only be able to see that a loved one was using Alexa for entertainment, for example, but not see whether a song or podcast was played. But its still really fine-grained data, Tsukayama said.

Whether in homes or care facilities, Berridge said, theres also a risk that people will choose to rely on cheap surveillance devices over human labor. Theres already a woefully insufficient number of care workers in the country, she said, and for some operators, placing an Amazon Echo in every room may look like a savvy solution to understaffing. The conditions are ripe for that, and they have been for a long time, she said.

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