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By now, it's widely understood that Facebook's voracious appetite for user data is driven by their business model which charges advertisers for access to precisely targeted segments of their massive consumer database.

You might recall that part of the fury with China that Google expressed in January was over the hacking of Gmail accounts belonging to activists - that, and the discovery of hacking into its source code repositories (though Google hasn't confirmed the latter, it's widely understood that was the reason for its reaction).

It's widely understood that children forced to fight in other people's wars are not war criminals or monsters.

But alternatives are time-consuming and remain opaque to most law enforcement agencies, which have been deputized to fight human trafficking in part because it's widely understood to be synonymous with illegal sex work something America's cops have been policing pretty much forever.

It's widely understood that abundant low-skilled immigration hurts lower America by reducing wages.

It's widely understood now that the invasion of Iraq had a devastating effect on the Afghanistan effort.

Google Android doesn't reveal its secret sauce but it is widely understood that the store's ranking algorithm considers user ratings and the "long install" rate, or whether consumers keep the apps they have downloaded.

State Department and intelligence officials who have worked in Kabul said that it is widely understood that Afghanistan's Presidential and parliamentary elections, which had already been rescheduled, must be held before the American Presidential elections, on November 2nd.

In fact, it is widely understood that Moqtada al Sadr's call to his Mahdi militia for a cease fire has been critical to the reduction of violence.

A reason government was small under the tariff was that it was widely understood that government and its functionaries are objectionable.

It was widely understood that a great deal rode on Quayle's performance in the Vice-Presidential debate, held in Omaha, on Oct. 5.