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Privacy laws urgently need to be updated to protect the public from information-gathering by the thousands of civilian drones expe
stanley cup cted to be flying in U.S. skies in the next decade or so, legal experts told a Senate panel Wednesday.A budding commercial drone industry is poised to put mostly small, unmanned aircraft to countless uses, from monitoring crops to acting as lookouts for police SWAT teams, but federal and state privacy laws have been outpaced by advances in drone technology, said experts appearing at a Senate hearing.Current privacy protections from aerial surveillance are based on court decisions from the 1980s, the committee was told, before the widespread drone use was anticipated. In general, manned helicopters and planes already have the potential to do the same kind
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stanley cup t on the town in Chicago, dining at some of its poshest restaurants with the smartest chefs. But who knew the president-elect was a food critic Check Please!, a Chicago public television round-table restaurant review show, has posted online two 7-year-old clips of Obama touting a favorite eating spot, the Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop in Hyde Park. I ordered the Southern Sampler just because I couldn t make u
stanley termosy p my mind, Obama says during the panel discussion, taped in August 2001 when he was in the Illinois Senate. I wasn t sure what I was in the mood for, he says. It s not gourmet cuisine, but that s not why I go to Dixie Kitchen. What I m looking for is food that tastes good for a good price. David Manilow, creator and executive producer of Check Please!, said Tuesday the program was one of the first episodes taped and it never aired. He said he chose Obama because of his comfort in front of television cameras. Manilow said he s never forgotten about the episode, but decided to wait to air the entire show on Chicago s WTTW until the Friday before Obama s inauguration, Jan. 16 at 8 p.m. He plans to release a third clip on Wednesday as a teaser. He s the kind of guy who can go to a pizza place or the fanciest place in town and be comfortable, Manilow said. What you get to
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