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    Government, Industry To Use Computer Microphones To Spy On 150 Million Americans
    Invasive surveillance and advertising obliterates even Minority Report style technology

    Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | September 6 2006

    Private industry and eventually government is planning to use microphones in the computers of an estimated 150 million-plus Internet active Americans 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 arrived - 2006 marks that date.

    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, 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.

    Two way communications systems like OnStar also have the ability to tap into private conversations as Americans become increasingly conditioned, by means of the private sector, to having their every movement, web session and conversation tracked and catalogued by big brother.

    Each time a new flash application requests permission to run on newer computers, you will notice that a privacy setting box pops up asking if the particular website you are surfing can access your microphone and webcam. Though the webcam is external, the microphone is internal and is a standard feature of all new models.



    Now Google have gone a step further by announcing that they will use in-built 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.

    "The idea is to use the existing PC microphone to listen to whatever is heard in the background, be it music, your phone going off or the TV turned down. The PC then identifies it, using fingerprinting, and then shows you relevant content, whether that's adverts or search results, or a chat room on the subject," reports the Register.

    Since at least 150 million Americans are Internet-active they will all be potential targets for secret surveillance and the subsequent sell-off of all their information to unscrupulous data mining corporations and government agencies.

    The report cites the inevitability that the use and abuse of this technology will eventually be taken over by the state.

    "Pretty soon the security industry is going to find a way to hijack the Google feed and use it for full on espionage."
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    uhhhh.... Whatever happened to privacy? Isnt it in the constitution somewhere that the goverment cant spy on the public without a REALLY GOOD CAUSE AND WITHOUT THE COURTS APPROVAL!?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thai Boxer 9901
    uhhhh.... Whatever happened to privacy? Isnt it in the constitution somewhere that the goverment cant spy on the public without a REALLY GOOD CAUSE AND WITHOUT THE COURTS APPROVAL!?

    Why....if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about.

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    All I am going to do now is make fart sounds as I type. Those spy bastards can listen to me pass gass for a laugh.
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    Well, when I buy a new computer in 2 months, I'm going to look for that little fucking microphone on the motherboard and melt the little shit! LOL
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    They said the same thing when they put in the V-Chip back in the 90s. It's a tinfoil hat thing, that's all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thai Boxer 9901
    uhhhh.... Whatever happened to privacy? Isnt it in the constitution somewhere that the goverment cant spy on the public without a REALLY GOOD CAUSE AND WITHOUT THE COURTS APPROVAL!?
    You don't want to know what that RFID chip in your boxers is tracking. If you've got bacon strips, you can bet you'll be getting coupons for Charmin.

    If you haven't figured it out, the thread is a joke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeL

    If you haven't figured it out, the thread is a joke.

    Please stay in view. Your government thanks you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LowLifeFlatHeadScum
    Why....if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about.
    I have no problem with cameras in public places, but I do not want my private home invaded, regardless of whether I have anything to hide or not. It's mine.
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    our government would never do such a thing!!!!




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    Quote Originally Posted by LowLifeFlatHeadScum
    Please stay in view. Your government thanks you.
    "It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face… was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime…" —1984 pg 54
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    Quote Originally Posted by graeme
    I have no problem with cameras in public places, but I do not want my private home invaded, regardless of whether I have anything to hide or not. It's mine.
    You're preaching to the choir, brotha. I just love it though when people actually mean and believe it when they say that only the evil and the criminal element have anything to fear from government surveillance.

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    good for the government. whatever

    watch me shit. I don't give a fuck.

    listen to me shit. ya know? whatever.
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