The effects of the property curbs and slower economic growth have local governments facing major fiscal difficulties, said Wang Jun, a researcher at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, according to a transcript of his remarks on the website of the China Internet Information Center, under the State Council Information Office.

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"The fact is that most people spend more time in the office than in their home nowadays, " said Andrew Shen of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

CNN: employees

They fired off a memo under the longwinded title, "How Best to Express the Department's Privacy and Civil Liberties Concerns over Draft Guidelines Proposed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Counterterrorism Center, " according to an email obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

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