While you watch it, it watches you. When you turn it on, they know you turned it on. When you change channels or take a trip to the virtual shopping mall, they'll be following you. Find out what broadcasters are saying about interactive television. Hear their Orwellian plans to keep a file on every viewer, in every single home. Who buys the file? The highest bidder. What will they do with it? Figure out how to modify your behavior. What say do you have? None. Just as you have no idea what software is downloaded to your set ...
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While you watch it, it watches you. When you turn it on, they know you turned it on. When you change channels or take a trip to the virtual shopping mall, they'll be following you. Find out what broadcasters are saying about interactive television. Hear their Orwellian plans to keep a file on every viewer, in every single home. Who buys the file? The highest bidder. What will they do with it? Figure out how to modify your behavior. What say do you have? None. Just as you have no idea what software is downloaded to your set top box. The applications are already written, many of them aimed at children. This might be the last generation to have privacy as we know it. Presented as an illustrated, satirical and humorous book, Spy TV, catches the media execs out, tricking them into exposing their plans from their own mouths. Spoof 'viewers guides' demonstrate the methodology of interactive TV and handy templates and factsheets help the viewer fight back.
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Add this copy of Spy Tv to cart. $67.19, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Slab O Concrete.
