true as that maybe, it still flies in the face of the transparent govt. platform President Obama ran upon.
the courts have also ruled that the corporations are citizens... again just because the ruling says so doesn't make it right.

"decent human beings" then perhaps you shouldn;t have named the department DHS... (Depraved Human Shits)

even AC understands this is no news for anybody let alone nerds!!

hence the headline..."Kim Stanley Robinson Says Colonizing Mars Won't Be As Easy As He Thought" it will be easier :)

a shitty product should be shat upon regardless of actually being smart enough to not pay for it.

and the judiciary is part of which conglomerate?

landshark drones?

"FCC doesn't look to kindly upon"
wasn't planning to show it a nipple.

also "truck won't be too far from the drone" unless you arm it with HARM what good is that going to do?

the question really isn't about privacy, but rather about freedom. Not the freedom as is touted but rather freedom from consequences of no-privacy.
repercussions of free speech without the protection of anonymity would be one. Just look at any whistle blower in recent history. That is at a governmental scale. However just think about having your private words, pictures, correspondence in public domain with the narrow minded social infrastructure that current US society displays in its fervor...
Make a provocative comment and be censured from work, friends and future prospects...

I am willing to buy the argument, if you are not guilty you shouldn't have anything to hide when the society is at a socially elevated level to accept people as they are without judgement... and no I won't hold my breath for that to happen.

America does want that, the fear mongering and bigotry runs rampant in just enough of America to allow this to continue.
May be one day enough America may not want it... might be too late by then.

"enhances the experience for users"

that's why super-fish is mandatory and installed on all their corporate PCs?

as it turns out, not one of my devices or the any blob inside is hammer proof.
i hope this pigeon makes it to /. to answer your curiosity.

the empire must fall some how... that is the the sound of inevitability...