Monday, February 9, 2009

Nosy Displays

Watch out when you pass by these displays - small embedded cameras might be watching, profiling and classifying you to then provide custom-tailored information. While this might be a good thing for many application such as security and automated patient reception, the privacy concerns cannot be overlooked. Especially since it will not be long until every display will also be a camera by default so that software could be turned into such capturing and analysis device. The result: Spam staring you in the face ...

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090130/ap_on_hi_te/tec_nosy_ads

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