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Submitted by Gina on July 3, 2008 - 10:10.

US Government Wants to Share Your Private Data With Foreign Governments

And it's the foreign governments who find this upsetting.

The potential agreement, as outlined in an internal report obtained by The New York Times, would represent a diplomatic breakthrough for American counterterrorism officials, who have clashed with the European Union over demands for personal data. Europe generally has more stringent laws restricting how governments and businesses can collect and transfer such information.

Submitted by Gina on June 29, 2008 - 11:36.

June 27 Happy

Thanks for the tweet advodude!


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Submitted by Gina on June 27, 2008 - 17:09.

That's MY Friend Giving the Smack Down

Yeah, it's been posted everywhere, but I've got to post it just so everyone knows that the Tracy in that video is my Tracy.

Submitted by Gina on June 26, 2008 - 13:28.

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