Posted on July 24, 2008
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Britain’s well known ubiquitous video surveillance network has nothing on a new nightmare in the making in Japan.
NEC have apparently produced a product inspired by George Orwell’s book 1984 in which the government installs two-way TVs to spy on citizens. The product in question is a plasma display fitted with an almost invisible camera that can accurately identify a person’s age and sex in order to target them with specific advertisements. Shoppers interested in what they’re being peddled can simply hold their cell phones near the TV, and a code containing a URL with more product information will be beamed to their cellphone.
We simply suggest that someone should get to work developing camera-foiling masks to sell to those of us still interested in a smattering of privacy!