Cameras in your cable box watching you at home while your watching TV
Rather than you watching television, it is they who are watching you! Verizon has recently patented a cable DVR box that will use audio and video to record and analyze what’s going on in your living room so that they can provide targeted ads in real time on the TV to suit what’s going on. Now, one reason may be advertising and marketing, but since they can listen and watch, just think, smile you may be on candid camera.
It’s worse than you would think: for example, if a couple’s arguing, they’ll show an ad for marriage counseling. Now let’s say a different couple in the neighborhood are on the couch cuddling and trying to enjoy each other’s company, this creepy DVR could show contraceptive ads. Stranger than fiction?Verizon’s idea is not the first technology that encroaches on the privacy of families’ living rooms.
Microsoft recently registered a patent for technology to allow its Kinect motion sensor to figure out how many people are in front of it then stop playback if it detected more people than the copyright terms allowed. Google TV proposed a similar patent that would use video and audio recording devices to do the same.
And Comcast patented a monitoring technology that would recommend content to users based on people it recognized in the room.
Comcast has jumped in the ban wagon assisting the NWO by openly admitting that they are installing cameras on their new Comcastcable boxes.
At the Digital Living Roomconference, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast‘s senior VP of user experience, mentioned the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.
Verizon’s technology seems to be the first marketing-focused adaptation of the idea to allow the broadcaster to tailor adverts based on what viewers are actually doing. Nick Pickles, director of privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch, said:
‘Smart TVs with in-built cameras and microphones are a privacy nightmare waiting around the corner.
‘What is essential is that consumers know exactly what they are buying and where the data is going.
“This may sound preposterous, but it’s neither a joke nor an exaggeration,” said Mr. Capuano in a statement, AdWeek reported. “These DVRs would essentially observe consumers as they watch television as a way to super-target ads. It is an incredible invasion of privacy.”
Once you approach your television set, your TV will recognize you and your family members and friends via facial regonition software.
The company, which makes the microchips found inside most personal computers, has launched an entirely new division, Intel Media, to make and market the Orwellian streaming-television product.
The camera, Intel claims, will enable them to personalise the interactive features of their product, so that different members of the same household can be served programming and advertising specific to them.
Intel is only the latest company to develop a television product that contains a camera and sensors designed to watch what viewers are up to U.S. Patent Application 20120304206.
Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin microphones, face tracking and speech recognition.
Samsung has not released a privacy policy clarifying what data it is collecting and sharing with regard to the new TV sets. And while there is no current evidence of any particular security hole or untoward behavior by Samsung’s app partners, Samsung has only stated that it “assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable” in the event that a product or service is not “appropriate.”
Samsung demoed these features to the press earlier this month. The camera and microphones are built into the top if the screen bezel in the 2012 8000-series plasmas and are permanently attached to the top of the 7500- and 8000ES-series LED TVs. A Samsung representative showed how, once set up and connected to the Internet, these models will automatically talk to the Samsung cloud and enable viewers to use new and exciting apps.
These Samsung TVs locate and make note of registered viewers via sophisticated face recognition software. This means if you tell the TV whose faces belong to which users in your family, it personalizes the experience to each recognized family member. If you have friends over, it could log these faces as well.
In addition, the TV listens and responds to specific voice commands. To use the feature, the microphone is active. What concerns us is the integration of both an active camera and microphone.
A Samsung representative tells us you can deactivate the voice feature; however this is done via software, not a hard switch like the one you use to turn a room light on or off.
And unlike other TVs, which have cameras and microphones as add-on accessories connected by a single, easily removable USB cable, you can’t just unplug these sensors.
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LG Smart TVs are spying on you while you change channels:
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