Another TV service will be watching you.

[DrLeftover]

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Verizon has filed a patent for targeting ads that collect information from infrared cameras and microphones that can detect the amount of people and types of conversations happening in customers’ living rooms.

The set-top box technology is not the first of its kind – Comcast patented similar monitoring technology in 2008 that recommended content to users based on people it recognized in the room. Google TV also proposed a patent that would use video and audio recorders to figure out exactly how many people in a room were watching its broadcast.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012...u-now-verizon-patent-listens-in-on-customers/

 

[wirelessguru1]

Well, the machines need eyes into everything...

 

[Jazzy]

Another reason I don't watch TV!

 

[Evil Eye]

Nineteen Eighty-four... 2012 edition. Not the government, companies.