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[Doug Millison]

from http://www.mediachannel.org/news/today/
INTERACTIVE: Coming Soon To a TV Near You: Big Brother 
The Center for Digital Democracy has sounded a warning about loss of privacy
threatened by forthcoming interactive TV technology, or ITV, claiming it
"will allow tremendous amounts of personal information about TV viewers to
be captured and analyzed. ... Through set-top boxes, personal video
recorders and other devices, consumers will soon face the same privacy
threats that now confront users of the Internet." The CDD says companies
such as AT&T, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and TV Guide will engage in
unprecedented data collection: "The American public is not being given an
opportunity to decide whether such technology and interactive advertising
campaigns should be permitted to enter their homes. In the face of industry
opposition to any meaningful privacy safeguards, coupled with the obvious
need for comprehensive protections, ITV poses a major threat." 
June 28, 2001 
Source: Center for Digital Democracy <http://www.democraticmedia.org> 


...think Vineland.