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Scientists Bringing Back the Mammoth

TheoriesofConspiracy.com — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:00:01 +0000

I'm bringin' mammoth back. Yeah!

Japan and Russia are teaming up to bring the mammoth back to life after a 10,000 year hiatus from existence.

Well-preserved bone marrow extracted from a frozen mammoth in Siberia will be used in combination with modern elephants to welcome the giant into the 21st century.

Dinosaurs to come next?

If we can bring mammoths back to life, why not a T-rex? Because the mammoths’ very close relative, the elephant, is still alive today. Elephant DNA is very similar to mammoth DNA and needed to perform the revival procedure.

Dinosaurs, on the other hand, have no close living relative. Yeah, it’s true that birds are related to dinosaurs, but the DNA similarities aren’t close enough to be compatible with each other. So that’s a big problem.

Another thing going against dinosaurs is the absence of fresh dino DNA. There isn’t a solid supply of DNA for scientists to draw from, so they have nothing to work with. Maybe a breakthrough in the future will bring us walking with dinosaurs again, but for now the prospect is bleak.

Malls and Stores Are Tracking You

TheoriesofConspiracy.com — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:53:47 +0000

The Short Pump Town Center

On Black Friday two malls started tracking their customers secretly by cell phone. The tracking system, known as FootPath, follows the movements of shoppers by logging cellphone location data and does not allow shoppers to opt out.

Following public outcry against this invasion of privacy, the malls have stopped tracking visitors, for now at least. The malls, California’s Promenade Temecula and Virginia’s Short Pump Town Center, have plans to continue the program in the future. Home Depot and JCPenny are interested in implementing the new tracking practice as well. It’s feared all stores, restaurants, and offices will one day track their customers as standard business strategy.

U.S. Army’s Real-Life SKYnet from Terminator Movies Becoming Self-Aware

TheoriesofConspiracy.com — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:02:37 +0000

If they all have manners like this one,we're doomed. Photo Credit of Jackie Lucarelli

Straight out of the Terminator movies, the U.S. Army is developing a self-aware network of robots used to manage communications and movement on the battlefield.

The machines are given wireless networking capabilities and network-wide learning algorithms to allow the robots to make decisions. It is hoped the results will be reduced human decision responsibility, a resilient data network with instant data transfer, and reduced energy consumption.

“It’s important that we apply learning and reasoning because currently, there’s no ‘intelligence’ in the network” says Sharon Mackey, chief of the Network Design and Cognitive Networking Sciences branch. Mitel Patel, technical lead for the branch, says “a soldier has to keep track of a lot of things to maintain the network such as network constraints, requirements and objectives. With cognitive algorithms, the network is more intelligent and self aware thus reducing resource management in the network.”

Risk of Robot Takeover?

Some see this as the first step of a robot revolution. According to many science fiction movies and novels, allowing networks of machines to become self-aware and make their own decisions leads to human annihilation.

There are many real-life organizations working to prevent this awful scenario by making rules for robots and humans to follow. For instance, South Korea’s Robot Ethics Charter creates policy aimed at preventing robot abuse by their human handlers, and vice-versa.

List of Major Companies Supporting SOPA

TheoriesofConspiracy.com — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:00:34 +0000

SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, is a bill going through Congress that would put America behind its own Chinese firewall.

Website Blocking

With this bill, government can order Internet service providers to block websites for infringing links posted by any users. Websites like Reddit, Tumblr, and even Youtube, are fair targets to be shutdown.

Risk of Jail for Ordinary Users

It becomes a felony with a potential 5 year sentence to stream a copyrighted work that would cost more than $2,500 to license, even if you are a totally noncommercial user, e.g. singing a pop song on Facebook.

Chaos for the Internet

Thousands of sites that are legal under the DMCA would face new legal threats. People trying to keep the internet more secure wouldn’t be able to rely on the integrity of the DNS system.

How to Fight Back

If this law passes, you’ll wake up to find sites you love blocked by the US government. Tell Congress to vote “no” on SOPA. Contact your congressman to tell them your against the bill, either by calling their office, writing a letter, or sending a prepared message though americancensorship.org.

It is also useful to know who the enemy is. The following major companies support SOPA. You can write or call the companies to let them know you are boycotting their services and products unless they end their support for the dangerous bill.

Companies Supporting SOPA:

1-800 Contacts, Inc.
1-800-PetMeds
2b1 Inc
3M Company
ABRO Industries, Inc.
Acushnet Company
adidas America
Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed)
Allen Russell Photography
Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
Alliance of Visual Artists (AVA)
Altria Client Services
American Apparel and Footwear Association
American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)
American Board of Internal Medicine
American Federation of Musicians
American Gramaphone LLC
American Made Alliance
American Mental Health Counselors Association
American Photographic Artists
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
American Society of Media Photographers
American Society of Picture Professionals
American Watch Association
Anatoly Pronin Photography
Andrea Rugg Photography
Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy Initiative (ACAPI)
Applied DNA Sciences
Art Holeman Photography
Association of American Publishers (AAP)
Association of Equipment Manufacturers
Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP)
Association of Test Publishers
AstraZeneca plc
Australian Medical Council
Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association
Baker & Taylor Ent.
Bay State Psychological Associates
Beachbody, LLC
Beam Global Spirits & Wine
Blue Sky Studios, Inc.
Bose Corporation
Braasch Biotech LLC
Brian Stevenson Photography
Brigid Collins Family Support Center
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)
Burberry
C. F. Martin & Co., Inc.
Callaway Golf Company
Cascade Designs Incorporated
Caterpillar Inc.
Caveon, LLC
CBS Corporation
Cengage Learning
Center for Credentialing & Education
Center Stage Photography
CFA Institute
Chanel USA
Christopher Semmes Photography
Church Music Publishers Association
CMH Images
Coach
Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy (CACP)
Columbia Sportswear Company
Comcast Corporation
Commercial Photo Design
Commercial Photographers International
Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System
Consumer Healthcare Products Association
Copyright Alliance
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
Coty Inc.
Council of Fashion Designers of America
Country Music Association
CropLife America
Cross-Entertainment LLC
CSA Group
CVS Caremark
Dan Sherwood Photography
Danita Delimont Stock Photography
Dayco Products, LLC
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group
Dennyfoto
Derek DiLuzio Photography
DeVaul Photography
Direct Selling Association (DSA)
Directional Insight
Distefano Enterprises Inc.
Doriguzzi Photographic Artistry
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Dolce & Gabbana USA, INC.
Dollar General Corporation
Don Grall Photography
Dunford Architectural Photography
Eagle Rock Entertainment
Ed McDonald Photography
Educational & Industrial Testing Service
Electronic Arts, Inc.
Electronic Components Industry Association (ECIA)
Eli Lilly and Company
Englebert Photography
Entertainment Software Association (ESA)
ERAI, Inc.
Eric Meola Studio Inc
Evidence Photographers International Council
Exxel Outdoors
FAME Publishing Co., LLC.
FAME Recording Studios
Far Bank Enterprises
Fashion Business Incorporated
Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy
Fender Musical Instrument Company
Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA)
Ford Motor Company
Fortune Brands, Inc.
Fred J. Lord Photography
GAR Associates
Gelderland Productions, L.L.C.
Gemvision Corporation
Gibson Guitar Corp.
GlaxoSmithKline
Gospel Music Association
Governors America Corp.
Graphic Artists Guild
Greeting Card Association (GCA)
Greg Nikas Photography
Guru Denim
H.S. Marketing & Design, Inc.
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
HarperCollins Publishers
Harry Fox Agency
Hastings Entertainment, Inc.
ICM Distributing Company, Inc.
IDS Publishing
IEC Electronics corp.
Images Plus
Imaging Supplies Coalition (ISC)
Independent Distributors of Electronics Association (IDEA)
INgrooves
Innate-gear
International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC)
International Trademark Association (INTA)
IPC-Association Connecting Electronics Industries
Ira Montgomery Photography
J.S. Grove Photography
James Drug Inc.
Jaynes Gallery
JCPage Photography
Jean Poland Photography
Jeff Stevensen Photography
John Fulton Photography
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Johnson & Johnson
Juicy Couture, Inc
Julien McRoberts Photography
K&R Photographics
kate spade
Kekepana International Services
Kenneth Garrett, photographer for National Geographic
Killing Jar Productions LLC
Lacoste USA
Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.
Lexmark International, Inc.
Light Perspectives
Linda Olsen Photography
Little Dog Records
Liz Claiborne, Inc
L’Oréal USA
Lucky Brand Jeans
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton
Macmillan
Major League Baseball
Marcia Andberg Associates LLC
Mark Niederman Photography
Marmot
Marona Photography
McLain Photography Inc
Merck & Co., Inc.
Messy Face Designs, Inc.
Michael Stern Photography
MicroRam Electronics, Inc.
Minter Works of Art
Mira Images
Monster Cable Products, Inc.
Moose’s Photos
Morningstar Films LLC
Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA)
MotionMasters
Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association
MPA – The Association of Magazine Media
Mr. Theodor Feibel (sole proprietor)
Music Managers Forum-U.S.
Nashville Songwriters Association International
Natalie Neckyfarow Actor/Dancer/Singer
National Association of Broadcasters
National Association of Manufacturers
National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM)
National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO)
National Basketball Association (NBA)
National Board for Certified Counselors
National Board for Certified Counselors Foundation
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)
National Football League (NFL)
National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA)
National Retail Federation (NRF)
NBCUniversal
Nervous Tattoo Inc., dba Ed Hardy
New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.
New Era Cap Co Inc
New Levels Ent. Co. LLC
News Corporation
Next Decade Entertainment, Inc.
NHL Enterprises, L.P.
Nicholas Petrucci, Artist, LLC
Nike, Inc.
Nintendo of America Inc.
Nissle Fine Art Photography
North Dakota Pharmacists Association
North Dakota Pharmacy Service Corporation
Oakley, Inc.
One Voice Recordings
OpSec Security, Inc.
Outdoor Industry Association
Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI)
Outdoor Research, Inc
Pacific Component Xchange, Inc.
Party Killer Films LLC
Pearson Clinical Assessment
Peavey Electronics Corporation
Perry Ellis International
Personal Care Products Council
Peter C. Brandt, Architectural and Fine Art Photography
Peter Hawkins Photography, Inc.
Petzl America
Pfizer Inc.
PGA of America
Philip Morris International
Photojournalist Dave Bartruff
Picture Archive Council of America (PACA)
Pigfactory Music
PING
PNW Images
Premier League
Production Music Association (PMA)
Professional Photographers of America
Quality Float Works, Inc.
Raging Waters Music
Ralph Lauren Corporation
Ramsay Corporation
Rebel Photo
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
Red4 Music/Doogs Rock Inc
Reebok International Ltd.
Reed Elsevier Inc.
Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)
Revlon
Richard Flutie Photography
Rite Aid
Robin Davis Photography, Inc.
Rodger Scott Craig, a member of Liverpool Express, The Merseybeats, Fortune, Harlan
Cage, 101 South, and Mtunz Media
Roger Smith Photography Services
Rolex Watch USA Inc.
Romance Writers of America (RWA)
Rosetta Stone Inc.
Saddle Creek
Sage Studios LLC
Sam D’Amico Photography
Schneider Electric
Sean McGinty Photography
Secret Sea Visions (Photography)
SESAC, Inc.
SG Industries, Inc.
Shure Incorporated
SIGMA Assessment Systems
Six Degrees Records
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council
SMC Entertainment
SMT Corp.
SoBe Entertainment
Society of Sport & Event Photographers
Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)
Sony Electronics Inc.
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Soul Appeal Records and Music
SoundExchange
Southern Gothic LLC
Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)
SPI (The Plastics Industry Trade Association)
Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association
Sports Rights Owners Coalition
Spring Fever Productions LLC
Spyder Active Sports, Inc
Stenbakken Photography
Stephen Dantzig Photography
Stock Artist Alliance
Stuart Weitzman Holdings, LLC
Student Photographic Society
Studio 404
SunRise Solar Inc.
Taylor Glenn Photographs
Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
Tednologies, Inc.
The Cambridge Don
The Collegiate Licensing Company/IMG College
The Donath Group, Inc.
The Dow Chemical Company
The Estee Lauder Companies
The McGraw-Hill Companies
The Music People! Inc.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
The Recording Academy (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences)
The Timberland Company
The Walt Disney Company
Tiffany & Co.
Time Warner Inc.
Tony Bullard Photography
Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.
TRA Global
Tricoast Worldwide
Trio Productions, Inc. / Songscape Music,
Twist & Shout, Inc.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
Universal Music Group
Uniweld Products Inc.
VF Corporation
Viacom
Vibram USA, Inc
Virtual Chip Exchange USA, Inc.
Voltage Pictures, LLC
W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co.
Walcott Studio, LLC
Wal-Mart
Warner Music Group
Wendy Kaveney Photography
Western Psychological Services
Westmorland Images, LLC
Wild & Associates, Inc.
Wild Eye Photos LLC
William Sutton Photography
Willis Music
WindLegends Ink LLC
Winestem Company
Winslow Research Institute
Wolfe Video
Wolverine World Wide, Inc.
Woolrich, Inc.
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
Xerox Corporation
Zippo Manufacturing Company
Zumba Fitness, LLC

Homeland Security’s ICE Threatens Open Internet

TheoriesofConspiracy.com — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:00:24 +0000

Mozilla was requested by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) to pull a Firefox add-on which circumvents blocked domains. Mozilla, believing ICE to be wrong, rejected the request on grounds that ICE had no warranty or legality to do so and pulling it would hinder technological growth and open Internet.

The add-on, MAFIAA Fire, simply redirects users to an online backup of seized websites. The creators wanted to make the point that ICE’s efforts to silence speech by taking objectionable sites offline is futile.

ICE may have been surprised by the refusal. Mozilla’s policy is to comply with all court orders, warrants, and legal mandates, but in this case there was no such document.

Instead, Mozilla’s legal department asked ICE 12 questions on what legal grounds as to why it should follow the takedown request:

April 19, 2011 email from Mozilla to US Department of Homeland Security Special Agent

To help us evaluate the Department of Homeland Security’s request to take-down/remove the MAFIAAfire.com add-on from Mozilla’s websites, can you please provide the following additional information:

Have any courts determined that MAFIAAfire.com is unlawful or illegal in any way? If so, on what basis? (Please provide any relevant rulings)

Have any courts determined that the seized domains related to MAFIAAfire.com are unlawful, illegal or liable for infringement in any way? (please provide relevant rulings)

Is Mozilla legally obligated to disable the add-on or is this request based on other reasons? If other reasons, can you please specify.

Has DHS, or any copyright owners involved in this matter, taken any legal action against MAFIAAfire.com or the seized domains, including DMCA requests?

What protections are in place for MAFIAAfire.com or the seized domain owners if eventually a court decides they were not unlawful?

Can you please provide copies of any briefs that accompanied the affidavit considered by the court that issued the relevant seizure orders?

Can you please provide a copy of the relevant seizure order upon which your request to Mozilla to take down MAFIAAfire.com is based?

Please identify exactly what the infringements by the owners of the domains consisted of, with reference to the substantive standards of Section 106 and to any case law establishing that the actions of the seized domain owners constituted civil or criminal copyright infringement.

Did any copyright owners furnish affidavits in connection with the domain seizures? Had any copyright owners served DMCA takedown notices on the seized domains or MAFIAAfire.com? (if so please provide us with a copy)

Has the Government furnished the domain owners with formal notice of the seizures, triggering the time period for a response by the owners? If so, when,and have there been any responses yet by owners?

Has the Government communicated its concerns directly with MAFIAAfire.com?If so, what response, if any, did MAFIAAfire.com make?

Mozilla is still waiting on the answers.

Alleged RFID Microchip Implanted During Hospital Visit

TheoriesofConspiracy.com — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:00:19 +0000

A fragment similar to this was removed from the man's lung.

A Danish man claims a microchip was implanted during surgery for a stabbed lung.

23 years after the surgery, X-rays revealed a metal fragment resembling an RFID chip present in his body.

RFID chips, or radio-frequency identification chips, use radio waves to transfer data.

The man claims the microchip caused him to hear voices and lead an abnormal life. He would regularly feel uneasy and cough up blood, and strangers would talk to him for no reason:

(I) also discovered and experienced that strange people on the streets would approach and speak to (me) about strange subject matters or pass strange irrelevant comments

The man, whose name is Mogens Tindhof Honore, underwent surgery at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in 2011 to remove the suspected chip.

Is it really a microchip?

Honore’s implant dates back to 1988, and considering the size of computers at that time, it’s unlikely chips small enough to fit inside a human body yet existed. But over 20 years later, super tiny microchips do exist, and as technology continues to evolve, it becomes increasingly likely these small objects could be used for devious purposes.

How would chips implanted in a person be used?

The chips can be used for tracking individuals. When combined with a biometric database, any person could be located with a simple search.

The Indian government is already well underway building a biometric database of its citizens, and it’s feared other governments will start doing the same.

World’s Most Powerful Laser to Tear the Vacuum of Space

TheoriesofConspiracy.com — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:00:57 +0000

A laser beam blasting a pipe.

A team of European scientists are working on the biggest doomsday project to come out of the laboratory since the Large Hadron Collider: the most powerful laser in the world.

The laser will be so powerful that it will bring forth conditions that are not even present in the sun. The laser’s intensity would be equivalent to all of the energy Earth receives from the sun except focused onto a small point no bigger than the head of a pin.

It will be 200 times more powerful than the best lasers that exist today and suck up a whopping 200 petawatts of power; that’s more than 100,000 times the world’s current worldwide electricity production. Because of this enormous energy requirement, the laser’s gigantic batteries will require an ample amount of time to charge before use.

What will the laser find?

Scientists are certain the laser will tear a hole into the vacuum of space. That part’s for sure. But what they’re also predicting is that it will open up extra dimensions.

It’s believed that our universe is just one of many in what is known as the multiverse. Everything that exists and can exist is contained within the multiverse, and our universe is just one of the trillions of other possible universes.

The significance of other dimensions is the likelihood of other life. By peeking into our neighboring dimensions, we may be able to find evidence of alien existence. And if a powerful laser is all that’s needed to jump dimensions, it’s very likely that aliens have already developed the technology needed to do so and have been dropping into our universe for visits.

Will the laser unexpectedly bring an end to the universe?

The False Vacuum doomsday scenario states that if the universe does not exist in the lowest possible energy state then a disruption in the vacuum would spread along the entire fabric of space and pop the universe like a balloon, destroying everything.

This laser will tear a hole into the vacuum of space, but scientists claim it will not be powerful enough to cause the False Vacuum doomsday scenario. Still, since it has never been done before, no one can be certain of the consequence.

Why build such a powerful laser in the first place?

The purpose of the experiment is to find “ghost particles”, small particles that mysteriously come in and out of existence. No one knows where the particles go when they disappear, but alternate dimensions is a good bet. When the laser focuses on a point in space, ghost particles around that point are predicted to mass together and stay in existence long enough for them to be observed and recorded.

Let’s hope the laser experiments find these particles without leaving us ghosts as well.

Multinational Corporation Perfecting Human Brain Simulation

TheoriesofConspiracy.com — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:00:51 +0000

Neuron impulses, like the dots seen here, are simulated by processor computations.

One of the most powerful corporations in the world, IBM, is setting its sights on perfecting a perfect simulation of the human brain. Already the company has completely simulated the brain of a mouse, a rat, a cat, and now you’re the next animal on the list.

Think it can’t happen? It’s already being done. So far, IBM has achieved a simulation rate of 4.5% of the human mind. With the rate it’s going, IBM hopes to reach 100% simulation by 2019, a mere 7 years away.

Coincidentally, famous futurist and author of the 1990 book The Age of Intelligent Machines Ray Kurzweil predicted 2019 as the year artificial intelligence would match that of humans. His prediction, it seems, is coming right out of the pages of science fiction and into reality.

Blue Gene is IBM’s name for the project and the research paper can be viewed online as a pdf link.

Animal	No. of Processors	IBM's Simulation Completion Rate
Mouse	512	100%
Rat	2,048	100%
Cat	24,576	100%
Human	880,000	4.5%

India Collecting Retinal Scans of All The Country’s Poor

TheoriesofConspiracy.com — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:00:33 +0000

The Indian government is creating a biometric database of all of the country’s poor. The homeless and poverty-stricken citizens are being rounded up to scan their retinas and fingerprints.

India hopes to scan 1 million Indians a day by the end of 2011.

The program, known as Aadhaar, is a big concern for privacy advocates. They believe the program is an excuse to collect the information and whereabouts of undesirables and dispose of them. If this fear is hard to swallow, imagine how useful Hitler would have found the tracking program before the onstart of World War 2 and his systematic extermination of the Jews. A bad sign is that the subcontracted data collection agencies are asking race and status questions to those being added to the database. If history were to repeat itself, which it most often does, a powerful leader could use the information in the database for genocide and the elimination of political competitors. Biochip implants could be added to the identification program to track individuals in real-time, granting the state complete control over its citizens by watching where they go and who they speak to.

Financial Exploitation of the Poor and Mentally Disabled

The government also plans to give each of these citizens bank accounts. Many of these poor lack money management skills, leaving them vulnerable to becoming victims of debt slavery. Banks could hand them out loans that they would end up repaying for the rest of their lives. If payments were late, it’s very likely the government would work in collaboration with the bank to track down the individual using the identity database.

The Slow and Steady Deterioration of Liberties

Creating the database is the first step. Once a database is established, the second step is microchip implants. The first step is happening now, the laborious task of collecting race, residential address, and economic status is underway. It’s a big process, but once it’s completed, all that is left is another policy issued by the government that requires microchip implants. The government can then go down the list of its database and distribute the chip into all of its citizens.

Black-Boxes Found in Cars

TheoriesofConspiracy.com — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:45:22 +0000

A standard aircraft black-box

Data recorders capturing every twist and turn a driver makes is upsetting some motorists. When a car’s emergency airbag is deployed, black-boxes save the driving speed, how much the brakes or accelerator was being pressed, if the seat belt was buckled in, and more information.

Getting your driving data is easy. All one has to do is plug in a cable from your car to a laptop and transfer it. The data can then be used against you in court, or given to insurance companies to determine how much money should be appropriated.

According to Nissan spokesman Steve Yaeger:

“We have event data recorders on all of our vehicles, and we have software called Consult that can be used by qualified people to read that data,” Yaeger said. “All of our dealers have it. But it’s protected by a code, and is not available to just everybody.”

“If it’s requested by law enforcement or court order, though, we can provide the information for that.”

Some are crying invasion of privacy. One driver said that, “… if I own the car, it’s my business what’s on the recorder, and no one should be able to access it unless I say so.”

What is even more upsetting is that these snooping devices cannot be turned off. The executive director of the National Motorists Association says, “It’s in the cars, it can’t be turned off, and the information is available to anyone with a court order…”

Is this collection of driving data a problem? Maybe so, but those angered by car black-boxes should additionally turn their attention to iPhones – since they record much more information than the boxes do.