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| In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU                                  |
|   from the you-have-none-get-over-it dept.                         |
|   posted by kdawson on Friday March 21, @12:09 (Privacy)           |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1511240          |
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cayenne8 sends us to Newteevee.com for a blog posting reporting from the
Digital Living Room conference earlier this week. Gerard Kunkel,
Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, stated that the cable company is
experimenting with different camera technologies built into its devices
so it can [0]know who’s in your living room. Cameras in the set-top
boxes, while apparently not using facial recognition software, can still
somehow figure out who is in the room, and customize user preferences for
cable (favorite channels, etc.). While this sounds ‘handy,’ it also
sounds a bit like the TV sets in 1984. I am sure, of course, that Comcast
wouldn’t tap into this for any reason, nor let the authorities tap into
this to watch inside your home in real time without a warrant or
anything.”

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/03/21/1511240

Links:
0. http://newteevee.com/2008/03/18/comcast-cameras-to-start-watching-you/

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