Not sure if I washed the spider down the drain in the shower...or if he took one look at me naked and jumped willingly.
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US near bottom of global privacy indexBy JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer Wed Jan 2, 10:31 AM ETLONDON - Individual privacy is under threat around the world as governments continue introducing surveillance and information-gathering measures, according to an international rights group."The general trend is that privacy is being extinguished in country after country," said Simon Davies, director of London-based Privacy International, which released a study on the issue Saturday. "Even those countries where we expected ongoing strong privacy protection, like Germany and Canada, are sinking into the mire.Although privacy was improving in the former communist states of eastern Europe, it is worsening across Western Europe, the report said. Concerns about terrorism, immigration and border security were driving the spread of identity and fingerprinting systems, according to the report.Greece, Romania and Canada had the best records of 47 countries Privacy International surveyed.Malaysia, Russia and China ranked worst, but Great Britain and the United States also fell into the lowest-performing group of "endemic surveillance societies."The survey considered such factors as legal protections, enforcement, data sharing, the use of biometrics and prevalence of closed-circuit cameras.U.S. President George W. Bush's administration has come under fire for monitoring — without warrants — international phone calls and e-mails involving people suspected of having terrorist links.Davies said little had changed since Democrats took control of Congress a year ago.Britain was criticized for its plans for national identity cards, a lack of government accountability and the world's largest network of surveillance cameras.
Unmanned vechiles?, ought to tell that to all the deadbeat dads FYI that was a sexual joke.
14:10 - Moarskrillex42: She said something about knowing why I wanted to move to Glasgow when she came in. She plopped down on my bed and told me to go ahead and open it for her.14:11 - Peter5930: So, she thought I was your lover and that I was sending you a box full of sex toys, and that you wanted to move to Glasgow to be with me?
There's nothing particularly ground-breaking about remote controlled planes with cameras and weapons on them. I'll be more interested when the planes start flying themselves and making their own decisions about what targets to engage and how to go about destroying them.
