A TV which 'actually cares about who you are'

[Sundowner]

The only thing we learn from history (and literature) is...we never learn from history (and literature).

Tip-of-the-day: Never bring a camera into your home that can be controlled by an outside third party.

Regards,
Sun

Intel's telescreen

David Manners
Friday 15 February 2013 14:41

Intel intends to sell set top boxes which can see what you're doing in your home. It will be able to identify each individual watcher of a domestic TV.

The information gathered will allow companies to target advertising at specific telly-watching individual. The box will be sold by Intel Media. Erik Huggers, vp of Intel Media, says that it delivers a TV which 'actually cares about who you are'.

Naturally many people have likened the Intel box to the telescreen in George Orwell's 1984 which kept populations under surveillance.

"This is data collection solely for commercial purposes," says Nick Pickles Director of Big Brother Watch, warning that these Internet-connected boxes can be hacked so becoming "Orwell's telescreens controlled by strangers with laptops."

Intel says several hundred of its employees are currently testing the box in their homes and it hopes to launch the service this year.

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/15/02/2013/55575/intels-telescreen.htm

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Most people already have webcams that can (and sometimes already are) controlled by third parties 

[guncrasher]

Most people already have webcams that can (and sometimes already are) controlled by third parties 

most people dont have a web camera,  but of those who do, they can be controlled by third parties.

midway

[Skuzzy]

Preemptive strike:

This topic could easily degrade into a political discussion. Don't do it.

Carry on.

[Dragon Tamer]

Preemptive strike:

This topic could easily degrade into a political discussion. Don't do it.

Carry on.

Will do. 

I myself see an issue with the boxes being controlled by hackers. A friend of mine had their webcam hacked in a chat-roulette style hacking... nuf' said.

I don't see the point of doing this anyway, I never watch commercials. I either change the channel or go do something else in between the show times. My problem is that commercials irritate the hell out of me, especially when it's the some one over and over... and over again. Once election time rolls around I stop watching TV all together (sorry Skuzzy it's the only time I promise).

[james]

Wasn't Verizon going to try something like this in a DVR that had a microphone to listen to the room for the same thing? Think of how many xbox kinects are out there already doing this probably.

[Dragon]

We DVR everything and FF over the commercials.  Who in their right mind would want to be spied upon?


I'm not into giving big brother or any advertising group any info about my habits.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

most people dont have a web camera,  but of those who do, they can be controlled by third parties.

midway

Most people do have a webcam these days. It may shock you but most laptops come with an integrated webcam and some people actually use Skype etc. tools to make video calls so they have a webcam installed to the desktop also 

[Lusche]

Finally someone who cares about me!  TY Intel!

Most people do have a webcam these days. It may shock you but most laptops come with an integrated webcam

My wife has put tape over her cam built into the netbook. Just to be sure. 

[Skuzzy]

We DVR everything and FF over the commercials.  Who in their right mind would want to be spied upon?
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Anyone with a Facebook account.

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My wife has put tape over her cam built into the netbook. Just to be sure.  

The Mac laptop the Wife used to carry around had the camera filled with epoxy.  They did that to all the company computers.

We do not have a any type of camera attached to any electronic device in the house.  Even the cameras in the phones have been covered with black paint once my Wife discovered her camera phone was on, recording, and then turned off by itself.

Fun times.  Woot!

[titanic3]

I like being spied on...lets me know some one out there cares. 

[guncrasher]

and the first time that box on top catches some youngsters in the act, then somebody is going to jail for transmitting under age movies.  and that will be the end of the box.


midway

[zack1234]

I have a webcam its lost in my junk

I used it last year on the request of Floatsup and his cat

He was playing AH in his pyjamas while his cat was having a mad half hour

I subsequently lost my webcam

People voluntarily submitting their personal details and activity is amazing, I have 3000 friends on facebook

This forum is my only social network site

I love you all in a manly way        

[MrRiplEy[H]]

The Mac laptop the Wife used to carry around had the camera filled with epoxy.  They did that to all the company computers.

If they did that one can ask what else they did to mess up the computer. No wonder you had major problems!

[Skuzzy]

If they did that one can ask what else they did to mess up the computer. No wonder you had major problems!

Had nothing to do with the issues they had.  The laundry list of the things they had issues were lengthy.  Once they got 25+ items on the list they gave up.  At the end of the day the experiment was costing them way to much money.

They actually did a nice job with the epoxy.  It looked like it belonged there.