In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU

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 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."

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Right to privacy settled in '73

[davidwr]

Roe v. Wade

Re:They knew who I was.

[ArcherB]

Indeed: Italy still elects avowed fascists to high government office far more often than the United States. Yeah, but those are REAL Fascists, not the made-up kind that moonbats call all politicians with whom they disagree. Admitting to being whiny little bitches wouldn't make them feel better so they have to make their opponents as evil as possible to justify their blinding hatred.

(After looking at your link, she is the grand daughter of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Just being a Mussolini's granddaughter makes her a Fascist like my grandfather makes me a golden gloves boxer.)