In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU
Straight from Slashdot: “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.”
Ooookay. I’m usually one who just pushes off these kind of things as “Hey, I’m not doing anything wrong, so I’m not worried about it.”. Like with the whole “Bush Administration Listening In On Phone Calls” fiasco. I’m not threatening to blow up anything, so why should I care if they were using computers to search for key words that terrorists use. All they’ll get from listening to my phone calls are me ranting to my buddy Ryan. (Besides, they were only “listening in” on already suspected terrorists long distance phone calls from the USA to foreign countries. So its not like those guys had US Citizen rights anyway.)
BUT THIS, this scares even me. The whole “peering through back into the living room” thing is highly disturbing. Not only because I don’t want to be watched watching TV but I don’t want some hacker hacking into the system. Then he knows what I got in my living room and he tells Bruno and the guys to go break into the house because he saw everybody leave. I wouldn’t even want this in a criminals house.
Warren Adams
March 25, 2008 at 10:55 pm