Proverbial

I remember thinking, years ago, how the whole ECHELON conspiracy theory could be nothing but bullshit, since there would be no way for whoever ran the thing to analyze all the data it captured. The last couple of years made me rethink that notion, though, since not a day seems to go by without someone [...]

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Well, it wasn’t quite concerns with imagery of Av. Paulista or Rio de Janeiro’s beaches, but it sure was fast (.br):
“It’s not only your image that’s exposed. You lose the tranquility of doing whatever you want in your residence”, says the attorney. According to Nicolau, the Public Ministry could file a preventive public civil lawsuit [...]

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Edible RFID. With the recent decision by a US court that covert GPS tracking is not illegal, I wonder how long it’ll be before policemen are putting RFID tags in suspects’ tea.

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