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Gore's Green Dream
Al Gore won a Nobel for environmental activism, but he also knows another kind of green. The former vice president had $1 million in the bank in 2000—now his net worth is more than $100 million. He's an adviser to Google, a board member at Apple and a new partner at Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He pledged his KP "salary" to Alliance for Climate Protection, but if he's like KP's other partners, he may get tens of millions more when start-ups go public or are sold. The move is another signal his politician days are over. KP is notoriously secretive, so unlikely to bring in Gore if it led to public scrutiny. And with all that money, why run for president?

—Tony Dokoupil and David A. Kaplan

Fast Chat: Smile For The Camera
The notion that we're watched at all times has yet to sink in. That's what makes Adam Rifkin's new film, "Look," so shocking. Shot entirely through the point of view of security cameras, the film shows how public our private lives have become. Its characters are connected by surveillance footage that determines their destinies. Producer Barry Schuler, the former head of AOL, spoke with NEWSWEEK's Jessica Bennett:

What inspired this film?
We're on camera nearly 200 times a day [in the United States], and those images are digitized and archived forever. Nobody's stopping to ask questions about its propriety.

What should we be asking?
Is it OK to have surveillance in bathrooms and dressing rooms? Shouldn't there be some kind of disclosure?

If surveillance is a breach of privacy, why is there support?
People see the lens, and I think it creates a sense of security. But I don't believe there's any real understanding of the power of this technology and its loose rules.