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SPY TV-COMING TO YOUR HOME/LIVING ROOM
-KID YOU NOT…IT WILL WATCH YOU…GET INFORMED NOW-
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Hidden Spy Camera & Mic Found Inside Digital TV Box
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Well 'wake up' folks…THIS IS the Reason for forced digital switchover in US and UK…Government and industry IS watching us…In order to…build up profiles & launch 'THEIR' invasive advertising. But, this would be only the beginning. As I've said MANY times before gang…They want to Watch us like 'Big Brother' and control us even more. Where's the 'Outrage'…the people and GUNS in the streets? Oh yeah…they want to take 'Firearms' away from us too. NOW is the Time for Revolution…take back freedoms. Get Angry. KID YOU NOT/'S'
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**Read the comments below-from 'Prison Planet' folks**
Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.com
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
A popular video circulating on You Tube shows the discovery of a spy camera and a microphone hidden inside a digital TV converter box. Such devices are part of a government and industry surveillance program that is undoubtedly connected to the forced digital TV switchover being rolled out in the UK and US.
'I could not believe my eyes'…states the blurb accompanying the video clip, 'I have a friend who is kind of a conspiracy theorist. He was trying to convince me that many of the digital TV converter boxes that are coming out have microphones and cameras built into them. Knowing a bit about electronics I bought one of these devices opened it up fully intending on proving him wrong. To my surprise he was right. This device has both a miniature camera lens and what looks like a microphone. I was so shocked I took pictures and video. Please send this out to everyone you know who is using one of these devices'.
The camera and microphone were hidden inside a MAGNAVOX TB110MW9 Digital to Analog Converter box. We are not suggesting that every digital cable box has a spy camera and microphone inside, so ripping open your cable box is not a good way to prove this one way or another - but the fact remains that companies like Google and Comcast have openly announced that they plan to use hidden cameras and microphones inside their products to spy on consumers.
The need to mandate a mass roll out of such hidden surveillance devices is undoubtedly one of the reasons that governments in both the UK and the US, as well as eventually the entire planet, are overseeing a forced switchover to digital TV and killing traditional analogue broadcasts. The vast majority of TV's require a digital decoder box to receive digital TV transmissions.
By installing covert spy devices and hidden microphones inside our all but mandatory digital boxes, the government and whatever corporate entities get a slice of the pie, have direct access to our living rooms. This is the ultimate Big Brother scenario whereby the majority of Americans and Europeans will have Orwellian telescreens watching their every move.
Many will dismiss such claims as conspiracy fodder, but the fact is that Americans have been spied on for decades, previously under the Echelon program and more recently as part of the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.
As former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice recently revealed, 'The National Security Agency had access to all Americans' communications — faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications', Tice claimed. 'It didn't matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications'.
As we highlighted three years ago, private industry and eventually government is planning to use microphones in the computers of an estimated 150 million-plus Internet active Americans, as well as similar devices installed inside digital TV boxes, to spy on their lifestyle choices and build psychological profiles which will be used for surveillance and minority report style invasive advertising and data mining.
Digital cable TV boxes, such as Scientific Atlanta, have had secret in-built microphones inside them since their inception in the late 1990's and these originally dormant devices were planned to be activated when the invasive advertising revolution was being rolled out, a watershed that is quickly becoming a reality.
The advent of digital video recording devices such as TiVo (Sky Plus in the UK) introduced the creation of psychological algorithm profiles - databases on what programs you watched, how long you watched them for, and which adverts you liked or didn't like.
This information was retained by TiVo and sold to the highest bidders - an example being Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction during the 2003 Super Bowl half-time show; TiVo were able to compile lists of how many people had rewound the clip and how many times they had replayed it.
In 2006, Google announced that they would use in-built computer microphones to listen in on user's background noise, be it television, music or radio - and then direct advertising at them based on their preferences.
In March last year, Comcast announced that they were 'experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who's in your living room'.
The cameras would use body-form recognition to confirm who was in the room and then tailor program recommendations, as well as commercials, to target that member of the family.
The video below covers the issue of secret cameras installed inside digital TV boxes and their relation to the forced digital switchover. A further video explores other motives behind the digital switchover.
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People surely think this WHOLE SPY THING…is a bunch of malarkey, AND only for 'Crackpot' conspiracy people. Well, get ready to have your eyes opened because
…There are many very concerned people who checked this out. Me for one folks. Dam it...be a 'person' not a 'Sheeple'. Read this whole article!! Leave your comments/opinions/etc-appreciated/'S'
AND…there are little tiny cameras in the LCD and plasma TVs.
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Ground-breaking legislation in California is fighting Microsoft and AOL to
stop them creating the machine George Orwell foresaw in 'BIG BROTHER'…the TV set that watches you.
At the same time, a new book titled 'Spy TV'…exposes the methods by which
digital interactive television will observe and experiment of viewers. It
describes how neural network software will be used to create 'psychographic
profiles' and then 'modify the behavior' of individuals.
This year broadcasters will celebrate interactive TV in public…using words
like 'convenience' and 'empowerment'. AOL TV is rolling out with the TiVo
personal video recorder (PVR)…that helps viewers find and save programs
they might like. Microsoft is launching its own PVR called Ultimate TV…
claiming 'It puts you in control!'. But while you may be sold on home
shopping and chat…broadcasters have been selling advertisers their new power to monitor everything you do with your remote.
At industry conferences on interactive TV, Microsoft has been handing out
specifications of its new platform. Their Microsoft TV Server…for instance,
enables 'optimizes revenue opportunities by providing rich personalization
and targeting of content and ads to consumers based on their television
viewing and Web surfing histories and preferences'.
Matthew Timms, of Two Way TV in London, describes this surveillance in the
home in plain English:
'..Somehow they feel they're sitting there - it's just them and the
television - even though the reality is it's got a wire leading straight
back to somebody's computer'.
Now in bookstores, 'Spy TV' is the backbone of an effort by White Dot…the
anti-television campaign, to educate the public about this invasive
technology. Finally his paying customers will get to hear Phil Swain of
Cable and Wireless describing the huge amounts of data he will gather:
Changing channels, selecting certain programs, viewing habits, browsing
through interactive sites, purchasing habits, all that kind of stuff we can
track.
Every click, we can track. 'We will be recording that information.'
In another recent development, Motorola Broadband, ACTV and OpenTV
have announced investment in a subsidy called SpotOn, designed to create profiles of over 7 million viewers, without their knowledge. ACTV looks
forward to delivering commercials based on 'the specific profile of an
individual household, which is generated by ACTV's software within the digital set-top in the home'.
SpotOn's head of Sales in Dever, Bob Evans is proud of what he sells
advertisers:
'That (set-top) box can hold 64,000 bits of information about you'!!!
Your TV set will know you intimately. Another interactive TV company…NDS,
is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International. Here they describe a
product called XTV that manages the data your television will capture:
'Viewers can be segmented by a host of new demographics, psychographics and
qualitative preferences, based on actual viewing behavior, while advertisers
can create low cost messages tailored to these new niche markets'.
Both SpotOn and XTV will be supported on the set-top boxes used by Liberate
(the operating system of AOLTV) and Microsoft TV (the operating system of
Ultimate TV)
Every move you make…for half the time you're not sleeping or working…will go into a file with your name on it.
That's many times more data than even internet marketers like DoubleClick could dream of.
Who gets use of that file? Large companies, government…the highest bidder. What is it used for?
Here's how one consultant put it:
'What we're all trying to do is change or reinforce existing behavior'.
Control…That's the 'buzzword' being used to sell interactive television. But
who is getting that control? For a year and a half David Burke of the
anti-television campaign White Dot, has been talking to broadcasters,
marketers, advertisers and IT consultants about their plans for this machine
What really excites them is the way interactive TV creates experimental
conditions in the home. Your TV will be able to show you something, monitor
how you respond, and then show you something else based on what you did.
It's a cycle of stimulus, measurement and response that will allow your TV set
to learn about you, adapt to you and work on you over time. Until it has you
doing what it wants.
Your behavior is the video game these men are playing…and they talk about
their viewers as if they were lab rats. Here a database analyst working with
one of the interactive broadcasters talks the new language of home
entertainment:
'You have to create some control group testing…in effect throw people some
placebos. So if we're trying to increase their spending, or increase their
usage or increase their customer satisfaction scores, we'll take one group
and split it down the middle and expose it to two separate batches of data PRESENTATION.
Whoever controls your interactive TV will be able to spend years of your
life just trying different combinations of programming until they find out
what makes you do things. And increasingly, that controller will not be
human. It will be a computer running artificial intelligence software,
capable of learning and adapting. 'The ultimate goal,'…says one consultant,
is to crack human personality in real time.
…And when that goal is reached, even if they just come close, how easy will
it be to sell each viewer a bottle of shampoo? A government policy? A new
form of government? 'There is no limit to this technology', says one excited
broadcaster…'The limit is only as far as the mind can imagine'.
David Burke, a computer programmer himself…agrees. That's how he wrote most of the book:
'Every time I thought of some new way interactive TV could work'…he says,
to control viewer behavior, I called up the companies involved and found
they were already working on it. The unbelievable thing is…'we are actually
paying them to do this to us'.
Privacy International awarded Spy TV a 'Winston' at its 1999 Big Brother
Awards and now joins White Dot, Junkbusters, and the Center for Media
Education in calling for a guarantee that viewers can 'opt in' instead of
having to 'opt out'.
It is just such an approach to personal privacy that California State
Senator Debra Bowen is seeking to make into law. California already protects
people from being tape recorded or filmed in their homes without their
expressed permission.
Her bill (SB 1599) simply extended that common sense
approach to people's televisions. But lobbyists from AOL and Microsoft
managed to kill it last year. Now, as the Senate comes back into session,
Bowen is gathering votes to bring it back (SB1090).
We haven't been told the truth about interactive television.
This 'service' will/is destroying a concept of privacy in the home that dates
back 600 years. The 'Spy TV' Book…has been written to call off this practical joke. Ask yourself…Who is this particular 'digital revolution overthrowing?
Maybe it's YOU.
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Britain, for instance, has no privacy law - only a Data Protection Act. It requires the broadcasters to register what information they are collecting and who is allowed access to it. The Act requires broadcasters to show viewers what is held. But it doesn't stop them collecting anything they want. It doesn't stop them using data to manipulate viewers for unnamed clients, and it doesn't require that the data shown to viewers is translated into a form they can understand. If the data is nothing but computer codes, viewers may be left scratching their heads.
As Caspar Bowden of the Foundation for Information Policy Resarch says, 'In Europe, Data Protection principles no longer cut it. We don't just need informed consent, we need the right to not be surveilled - whether or not this is part of a freely offered commercial service'.
Meanwhile, the United States, unlike countries all over the world, does not even have a Data Protection Act. In the land of the free, anyone can collect any kind of information about you and not even tell you what they're doing.
Privacy is never about information, it's about power – 'the right to be left alone'. Take that power back! Help us make privacy the next home electronics 'must have'.
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