If you are a Verizon customer, please express your displeasure to them about this:

[bullsi1911]

http://myfox8.com/2012/12/05/verizon...r-living-room/

Last month, Verizon filed a patent for a DVR that can detect activity in your living room and target ads accordingly.

The patent application, which was filed on Nov. 29, aims to target viewers “cuddling, fighting, participating in a game or sporting event, and talking” and match them up with appropriate advertising content.

So... Verizon wants to see what you are doing in your living room, and sell you on it.

"Buffy, I see you have switched channels to Cinemax. Do you need to buy some lotion?"

Since we have found out this week that the Govt is trying to collect every text message sent, and the Govt has collected EVRY email you have ever sent... how long till those Advertising records are collected by the Govt? You comfortable with either a private company or the Govt having record of which shows get you and your significant other to make out? How about the frequency of crotch scratching during football games?

This is unacceptable.

[Fat Billy]

Just think how much they will make on jock itch videos. Later,

[shotgunshooter3]

Good thing that I am not a Verizon customer and I don't intend to purchase a DVR, ever.

[ghostsniper1]

Just think how much they will make on jock itch videos. Later,

Hahahaha lmfao.

[Vic's Viewpoint]

http://myfox8.com/2012/12/05/verizon...r-living-room/ Since we have found out this week that the Govt is trying to collect every text message sent, and the Govt has collected EVRY email you have ever sent... how long till those Advertising records are collected by the Govt? You comfortable with either a private company or the Govt having record of which shows get you and your significant other to make out? How about the frequency of crotch scratching during football games?

This is unacceptable.

What's next? George Orwell's "1984," wherein there was an all-seeing eye in every room of every dwelling, so that Big Brother (and now, the Holding Company) could watch you? Hasn't anyone under 50 read Orwell? I do recall reading that 1984 was taken off the recommended reading list for Chicago area high schools perhaps ten or more years ago. This is way beyond unacceptable.

And does anybody know how long the gov't holds our emails before deleting them? Or what they do with them while they have them? Does the NSA scan them looking for "trigger words" that cause red flags to pop up? Because if so, then I suspect that everyone on this forum is on somebody's "radar" somewhere. That is absolutely monstrous, if even half true.

[Vic's Viewpoint]

Further to the foregoing talk of DVRs that tailor ads to viewers' activities at any given moment (Presumably), I wonder what would happen if said viewer were to suddenly start meticulously cleaning his assault rifle? Then perhaps started stroking it lovingly, talking to it and cooing? What ads would get beamed to him then? And how many red flags would jump up on how many monitors in how many gov't agencies and commercial headquarters? Wouldn't it be great to be a fly on the wall in those outfits while it all went down? What wouldn't I give to see that? And then report on it everywhere, of course.

[Big Chief]

Didn't y'all know TV sets have been watching/listening to YOU fer years............

Technology is a wonderful thing until it is abused and it's guaranteed somewhere somebody will abuse it if they get their hands on it. It (technologies) may seem innocuous enough to start and even have good intentions in store for its use, but can be adapted for evil purposes.

I agree with bullsi on this, totally unacceptable. It doesn't even pretend to be something innocent, but a way to spy on citizens activities in their own living rooms to collect marketing data. Invasion of privacy would be a mild phrase to use here.

[Vic's Viewpoint]

Good thing that I am not a Verizon customer and I don't intend to purchase a DVR, ever.

Really? Allow me to suggest one good, legitimate use for a DVR: ridding oneself of annoying, mind-numbing advertisements. I/we DVR all of our favorite shows, plus prime time news and movies that we want to watch. Then, when the ads come on, I simply grab the remote,
hit the Fast Forward button, zoom through the ads at 3-4 times recorded speed, then hit Play when you see the ads wrapping up. That saves us from having to twiddle our thumbs and hit the Mute button every time an ad comes on, which is frequently. Food for thought.