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I think California has privacy laws. At the national level I don't think we have anything except HIPAA, which only covers medical data.

As for why the police thought the evidence was sufficient, it's because they just don't care.

It is.

I never said anything about restricting access to information. We're talking about banning phones from classrooms, which I see as no different from not letting kids drive cars.

In the US it's common to give students "word problems" that describe a scenario and ask them to answer a question that requires applying whatever math they're studying at the time. Students hate them and criticize the problems for being unrealistic, but I think they really just hate word problems because because they find them difficult. To me that means they need more word problems so they can actually get used to thinking about how math relates to the real world.

Every accusation is a confession.

What's the difficulty? If they're being used they're out in the open, and if they're out in the open they can be confiscated.

Ever heard of robots? You can't make the real world digital but you can certainly give computers access to the physical world.

Also a peaceful tour group.

I know it's standard for graphics to be integrated into a motherboard. Is that what you're referring to? Because I've never heard of on-CPU graphics.

People who really care about computers buy handmade artisanal transistors.

Based on what others in the thread are saying, that's already covered for free by the key fob. What they're charging for is doing it through the internet.