I’d never put any kind of tape over my iSight… but i’m trying to know how to turn off the little green light in order to make hidden videos ;)

“when are companies going to realize we dont want to automatically have ads displayed?”

I don’t want commercials in my TV shows either…but how else are they going to pay for the content?

Isn’t this a bit alarmist? A new application that would allow the less than tech-savvy to find internet content relating to their TV viewing *immediately* turns into cries that corporations are constantly trying to destroy our privacy?

From the brief paragraph description of the program given, it does not seem to suggest that Google will be forcing this technology down anyones throats. Furthermore, any reasonable person who puts any amount of thought into what the program is actually doing would realize that A) it is recording any and all sound in the room, B) it is transmitting that audio data off into the wild blue internet to who knows where in order for it to be processed in some unknown manner, and C) targeted internet content is then sent back to you.

Clearly the possibility for Google to amass some archive of what’s been going on in your living room when your computer is on exists, but apparently that is the purpose of the program in the first place, in order to return a highly personalized experience (which is impossible without giving up a corresponding amount of privacy).

I fail to see where the perceived maliciousness comes into play at all.

So much for “You can make money without doing evil.”