Tuesday, March 25, 2008

1984 Is Here


By Chris Albrecht

If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.

The idea being that if you turn on your cable box, it recognizes you and pulls up shows already in your profile or makes recommendations. If parents are watching TV with their children, for example, parental controls could appear to block certain content from appearing on the screen. Kunkel also said this type of monitoring is the “holy grail” because it could help serve up specifically tailored ads. Yikes.

Kunkel said the system wouldn’t be based on facial recognition, so there wouldn’t be a picture of you on file (we hope). Instead, it would distinguish between different members of your household by recognizing body forms. He stressed that the system is still in the experimental phase, that there hasn’t been consumer testing, and that any rollout “must add value” to the viewing experience beyond serving ads.

6 Comments:

At 9:26 AM, March 29, 2008 , Blogger Capt. Fogg said...

I wonder if it could tell if I was carrying a baseball bat - but of course you could defeat it with a piece of duct tape. You can fix anything with duct tape.

 
At 1:27 PM, March 31, 2008 , Blogger Intellectual Insurgent said...

Did you see the latest about using bugs for surveillance?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt322.html

 
At 12:29 PM, April 02, 2008 , Blogger Capt. Fogg said...

Jeezis. As it turns out the domestic spying is worse than even I thought.

I wonder if Orkin will offer a new kind of service?

 
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