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By: Comcast spied on its customers! :: News From Underground

Comcast spied on its customers! :: News From Underground — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:01:30 +0000

[...] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20020212/2356249_F.shtml Comcast Experiments with Home Spying http://usefularts.us/2008/03/26/comcast-experiments-with-home-spying/ Comcast VP indicates technology to spy on its TV cable customers exists [...]

By: Reisekredit

Reisekredit — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:00:24 +0000

The best thing would be, if Comcast puts the whole thing online as an unprotected videostream, like it’s with those AXIS video servers

By: Chinese drywall

Chinese drywall — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:17:19 +0000

If you are considering a buying a home, do not forget to ask for a Chinese drywall inspection. If the home was built between 2001 and 2008 it could contain drywall that is corrosive.

By: john smith

john smith — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:17:52 +0000

with the new laws ( p act ) can they see & hear in our homes with the new boxes ? if so what do we have left ? if this is true we are not free.
GOD help us.

By: Mary R.

Mary R. — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:03:56 +0000

I just got converter boxes for my tvs that don’t have the Comcast cable box; as Comcast told me that starting tomorrow (5/18/10)everyone “Comcast” will need them to receive channels over your local channels. Well, what a piece of crap this little box is.. and the remote for it is also!! Now the picture is degraded on the tv’s that have the converter boxes and you have to “pump” the volume on the remote to get it to go up or down. AND… the volume of programs now goes way up and way down on it’s own constantly (and I don’t mean when the commercials come on or return to the program)…so, then you pump, pump, pump that volume until you get the vol. right and it changes again!! ….now I have ONE more thing to plug into the wall in my kitchen, with this stupid box and this big-ass thick, white cable that plugs into the box (after you plug your existing cable into the box. Is this supposed to be progress??? I think it’s just a way for Comcast to keep people, who are all buying new HDTV’s, from getting Hi-def for free without “buying” it from them for an extra $10 a month… I am soooo upset, I feel like throwing all this stuff back in their laps and switching to Uverse!

By: MadTurk

MadTurk — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:18:29 +0000

Got a letter from Comcast about my analog tv’s. They said I need a converter box to get certain channels that are not premium.

They send you the box for free so it’s good right?

Well let me tell you, I have cable at my other house in another area with another company and we get 700+ channels with no digital converter box.

The box comes with a remote and hooks up to your TV. So now I have three remotes for the TV, DVD and converter box. As I’m installing the box, I start to think, what if this box is required so that Comcast can know what I’m wathching on every TV in the house.

My sister in law hadn’t received her converter box so I offered one of mine that I hadn’t installed yet and she could give me one of her’s when she gets them. When she tried to activate the box, she said the Comcast people were treating her like she was stealing cable by using someone elses box.

Each box has a digital signature so that Comcast can identify the user. Also when you “activate the box” they ask you what room in the house you are hooking up to the box.

Sounds to me that they are using this as a way to get marketing info on all their customers as to what they watch and in which room they watch it. Try and tell me that they can’t keep track of everything you watch with these and the other boxes for the digital TV’s.

Also try and tell me that they don’t know everything you do on the internet. With computers it’s easy to accumulate data about their customers that they can use to market you or to sell the info to other companies.

When the switch to digital occurred everyone was told that if you have cable you won’t need converter boxes. Now Comcast says that you do.

This does sound like the beginning of a 1984 senario. Maybe they think that this data collection is harmless because it’s for marketing but it’s easy to see how this could become a very bad thing for privacy.

Doesn’t it worry anyone else that this mega company is able to keep such data about your veiwing habits. Who else will have access to this information. Why is it any of their business?

Do we have to give away our privacy just to get cable. No I don’t trust them as stewards of this private info. It’s nobody’s business what channels I watch or what websites I visit.

What else do they want to know about you?

By: jay dee

jay dee — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:56:30 +0000

cancel my cable, dumb-ass’s