About the only thing we don't know is how long it has been this way. Six governments tap Vodafone calls | Reuters

If you haven't already seen it, may I recommend watching a great James Colburn comedy . . . The President's Analyst.

On a more local and personal level, over Memorial Day weekend I was sitting in a neighbors backyard at the shore, and another neghbor four houses away launches his drone and hovers it up at about 50' looking at the few neighbors and their guests who were sitting in their yards and enjoying themselves, including us. The previous night he did the same thing, and a few folks showed their displeasure by mooning the drone.

Even though I know the guy, it didn't make me feel comfortable. Who the f**k are you to snoop on me? Brought to mind a of question whether a town can pass a law outlawing them?

How is your skeet shooting ability?

Privacy never existed unless strong crypto was used. If everyone used strong crypto, yeah, individual conversations could still be broken with enough computing time. But snooping on everything would be cost-prohibitive.

I remember my father calling the US from Poland in the early 90s. *click* "Would you please speak Polish, because I do not understand your conversation?"

Europeans took a dim view to the Google Maps Street Veiw cars. They also now require procedures for Google to "unlink" a person's data.

The captured images in Amsterdam's red district must have been priceless...

I was about to post the same thing

- Peter.

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Snooping, it's what's for dinner. Anyone who really knows and understand the Husky knows that I do not like snoopers, gawkers, gossipers or intruders of any kind or type. That said, it has been my observation that most snoopers, gawkers, gossipers and the like are that way because of this:

YOUR LIFE IS FAR MORE INTERESTING THAN THEIR EMPTY VALUELESS LIVES.

Therefore, they snoop. After they snoop into your personal, private business, they gossip about you to their friends. A teller at the local bank likes to check up and report to her peers on the activities of large account holders. She gossips to other bank employees about what she finds, i.e. "Did you know the Smiths just purchased a new Jaguar??" or "The Jones just took a trip to five European countries, isn't that great?"

If it's a quadcopter drone, some fishing line and a toy bow and arrow would do wonders....

CNN Inside Man: Who is Watching You

This is just the teaser. There was a great scene where they counted the number of street cameras in a normal NYC intersection, both public and private. Not as exciting as watching "Person of Interest"

I have much less of an issue with private cameras, so long as the footage stays private and requires a subpoena to collect. Private cameras with digital DVR's also tend to record on a loop of days to weeks, then overwrite the footage on a first-in-first-out basis unless it's needed in an investigation.

There also seem to be a lot more public cameras downtown in the business areas than in residential areas where deployment is still relatively limited.

Are you wearing that shirt AGAIN?

Non-existant.
Neighbor disapproval may keep it away from our back yards.....hopefully.

If it happens to crash, can you claim salvage rights and sell it on EBay?