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The Departure Of Old-School TVs And The Arrival Of Modern TVs: Who's Watching You Watch?
February 9, 2015 | Patriot777

Posted on 02/09/2015 7:15:37 AM PST by Patriot777

Not too long ago I engaged in a conversation with my spouse about how I learned, quite a long time ago, that a great many television sets--possibly all of them, that are not CRTs but are now the projection, HDs, flat-screen, 3D, curved-screen, Smart Screen, and all the others--have cameras installed in them that are being used to record everything we say and do. And, such information is disseminated to... Since I'm kinda down with a fair bit of pain today, this would be a good topic for me to research, to find out just what TVs have this feature and if so, how to disable it. I'm sure that you, my fellow Freepers, will jump ahead of me and take this puppy on before I even finish my second cup of coffee. God bless you! :-)


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: camera; government; modern; tv
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To: Patriot777

I have a camera, if i have any need to do any youtube stuff.
My tv isn’t a smart tv, and i won’t have one, either.
My laptop was ordered without a camera installed, and i will only buy one if it does NOT have one, including if i haver to order it that way..
My glass-faced phone has a face/owner recognition program, but I got rid of that, as much as one can, with all that crap programming that comes with the darn thing.
Now, there may be one unknown to me in that cable dvr box, but I do not have the spec sheets, so i can’t say.

I know of a USArmy former tech/fellow worker who could hook up a tv, in the picture tube days, to make it a camera. Nowadays, with this darn queer in the White House, anything is possible.


21 posted on 02/09/2015 7:42:40 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Fred Hayek
I don’t have a television.

We have seven TV's but I never take off my clothes.

22 posted on 02/09/2015 7:44:01 AM PST by Cry if I Wanna
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To: Patriot777
Unless you have a TV that has an Interwebs connection it is highly unlikely to be spying on you.

If it does have an Interwebs connection...

23 posted on 02/09/2015 7:44:20 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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To: Patriot777
I will be keeping my Sony KDL-40EX500 a LOT longer because of this. My Sony has no "smart TV" features, thank the right sentient upstairs. :-)
24 posted on 02/09/2015 7:47:29 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Patriot777

My phone company keeps sending me mail advertising converting my home to a “smart home”, where everything is connected to the web.


25 posted on 02/09/2015 7:59:19 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Patriot777

I am reminded of an old cartoon from 45 years ago “The GREAT WASTELAND looks back.”
It was the views of what was going on from the TV’s point of view.


26 posted on 02/09/2015 8:09:15 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Patriot777

My Momma did not believe in TVs. When my dad died, mom kept his TV, but put a tablecloth over it and draped it down over the screen, as if to cover up the “eye” looking at her. She finally gave it to my sister to get rid of it.


27 posted on 02/09/2015 8:12:45 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: WayneS
Your location has been detected based on your internet postings. You will be picked up shortly and transferred to the Ministry of Love for re-education.

. . . and be taken to Room 101.

28 posted on 02/09/2015 8:21:49 AM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
My Momma did not believe in TVs.

Did someone assure her that they exist?

29 posted on 02/09/2015 8:23:05 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Patriot777

Why would I care if someone is watching me watch TV? My neighbors can just look at their window and see it. If that is all they have to do, I’m glad to give them such a fascinating job.

Except I don’t watch TV but whatever...


30 posted on 02/09/2015 8:26:49 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Cry if I Wanna
We have seven TV's but I never take off my clothes.

You did, once, on July 17th of 2013.

If you want, you can buy the video master...

31 posted on 02/09/2015 8:35:16 AM PST by freedumb2003 (AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
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To: cuban leaf
Have you checked the cheese?

[RE: Rob Lowe commercial -- the paranoid Rob Lowe]


32 posted on 02/09/2015 8:37:27 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Patriot777

You should be able to stockpile a supply of old-school CRT televisions to last you the rest of your life. Many people have them and cannot give them away. And in my state you can no longer send them to the landfills either. The Salvation Army thrift store had a very nice selection for $15-40.


33 posted on 02/09/2015 8:50:30 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TomGuy

You can mock ...... but that poor guy has never been the same since his sister was bitten by a moose.


34 posted on 02/09/2015 8:54:29 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Patriot777

Malwarebytes recently deactivated a file in my computers called VZdetectagent.exe.

I had recently taken on Verizon internet and when I started looking into this file, I found out it was a Verizon file. I also found some info that it may be a file that reports to Verizon on my computer use including where I go and what I see.

Does anyone else have info on this?


35 posted on 02/09/2015 9:03:57 AM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: Patriot777

I just put a cut out of Brian Williams in front of the camera...everything is ok now.


36 posted on 02/09/2015 9:19:13 AM PST by Dallas59
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To: Patriot777

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The fool that wrote this screed sells tin-foil hats at a tidy profit!

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37 posted on 02/09/2015 9:21:24 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Gen.Blather

You’ll love this story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District


38 posted on 02/09/2015 9:23:28 AM PST by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
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To: muir_redwoods

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How can the camera on the back of your phone ‘see’ you?

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39 posted on 02/09/2015 9:25:14 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Terry L Smith

“I know of a USArmy former tech/fellow worker who could hook up a tv, in the picture tube days, to make it a camera. “

ROFLOL!!!!!!!!


40 posted on 02/09/2015 9:53:48 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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