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Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma
Interoperable writes "Canada's airlines are caught between a rock and a hard place in the face of new US regulations that require them to collect and hand over personal information about passengers. Handing over information regarding a passenger's name, gender and birth-date may violate Canadian privacy laws but merely flying over American airspace is conditional on doing exactly that. It seems that the long arms of the TSA are eager to grope at Canadians taking a shortcut to Toronto; no doubt to prevent any terrorist attacks on Lake Huron."
By strange coincidence, the top two countries of mine I've wanted to go visit in my lifetime is the USA (again), and Japan. However, they treat tourists like criminals, and surprise, I'm not visiting those countries. There are dozens and dozens of other countries around the world that value my tourist money and are equally stunning, polite, and photogenic. No problem to me, just wait for the American tourist board to squeal some more soon about the amount of people willing to go to see the US is going down even more.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
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I think we can live with out euro-trash.
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I hear ya man. But what can ya do, the US has a record of doing stupid things like that. For instance, did you know that only 2,400 people died at Pearl Harbor? A completely insignificant number! Yet those silly Yanks got all riled up and wasted 400,000 lives and 2 TRILLION dollars ... and they did it while attacking the wrong country!
Yep, those Americans are pretty fucking stupid. It's a good thing that me and you are smart enough to see The Truth!