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Everyone who attended OWS with a cell phone had their identity logged, says security expert

While we in the civil liberties community disagree strongly with private investigator Steven Rambam's admonition to "Get Over It," after listening to him describe electronic surveillance powers it's hard to disagree with the first part of the title of his talk: "Privacy Is Dead. " (Part two of the talk is below.) "Where you work, what your salary is, your criminal history, all the lawsuits you've been involved in, real property...everything you've ever purchased, everywhere you've ever been...Your information is worth money. Your privacy today isn't being invaded by big brother -- it's being invaded by big marketer," he told an audience of hackers and privacy activists at HOPE 9 in New York during the summer of 2012.

Lots of the talk is about big corporations and their insatiable hunger for data about all of us, but Ramdam also addresses government spying: DNA-swap technology almost ready for fertility clinic. Mitochondria produce energy in cells; swapping them in an unfertilized egg can reduce the risk of disease in the offspring.

DNA-swap technology almost ready for fertility clinic

Researchers say that technology to shuffle genetic material between unfertilized eggs is ready to make healthy babies. The technique could allow parents to minimize the risk of a range of diseases related to defects in the energy-producing cell organelles known as mitochondria. Mitochondrial defects affect an estimated 1 in 4,000 children, and can cause rare and often fatal diseases such as carnitine deficiency, which prevents the body from using fats for energy. They are also implicated in a wide range of more common diseases affecting children and adults, such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.

Mitochondria have their own DNA and are inherited only from the mother, so replacing defective mitochondria in eggs from mothers who have a high risk of passing on such diseases could spare the children. Mix and match Egg anomalies Swapping mitochondria. Sex Robots A Reality By 2050, Researchers Predict. Researchers in New Zealand predict that sex robots like the ones envisioned in the Austin Powers movies will be a reality by 2050.

Sex Robots A Reality By 2050, Researchers Predict

Human prostitutes could be a thing of the past by 2050, as more and more robots get pimped into prostitution. That's the future envisioned by Michelle Mars and Ian Yeoman at Victoria University of Wellington, who have released a report suggesting that lifelike robots will be coming to a brothel near you. Mars and Yeoman see lots of advantages to having "hoe-bots" doing the dirty work instead of humans, such as "commercial sex robots would be free of disease and would reduce the trafficking of real people," they told The Week. Despite the fact that these hard-wired whores will suck up electricity as opposed to, er, never mind, the raunchy robot researchers say the idea isn't that shocking.

“Sex robots are absolutely inevitable. “Human prostitution will still be around. "Technically, this won't be cheating, right? "