<html><head></head><body><p>They've had this tech for many years. It was dropped once due to the panicked reaction to the finding that watchers of major league sports were, ahem, mostly asleep. Not a finding likely to enhance advertising revenues.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">tom <thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Hi<br /><br />Anybody aware of this? Just heard about it on the radio this morning.<br /><br /><a href="http://broadcastengineering.com/regulation/we-are-watching-you-act-introduced-regulate-privacy-home">http://broadcastengineering.com/regulation/we-are-watching-you-act-introduced-regulate-privacy-home</a>.<br /><br />In short, Microsoft, Verizon and others are proposing TV's, XBoxes, etc <br />be manufactured so that they can watch your reaction to content to <br />facilitate better advertising.<br /><br />The act is a joint proposal by a liberal and a conservative. The <br />conservative wants people to be notified that they are being watched and <br />let the free market deal. If you don't want to be watched in the privacy <br />of your own home, don't buy a new TV.<br /><br />I think the manufacturor's should be required to place a big obvious on <br />off switch on the front of the device. Better yet, just out right out <br />law it.<br /><br />Verizon
submitted a patent for the technology but has been denied so far.<br /><br />Tom<br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />colug-432 mailing list<br />colug-432@colug.net<br /><a href="http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432">http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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