Google Spying on your viewing

**blacklablover** · 09-08-2008 11:23 PM

" Through an existing deal with DISH Network, the Google TV Ads service can report second-by-second TV usage data allowing advertisers to measure viewership of their ads more precisely. The NBC-Google partnership extrapolates on the data supplied by Dish set-top boxes in millions of U.S. homes."

Found this linked off of Drudge

**lakebum431** · 09-08-2008 11:26 PM

So what? They aren't reporting that blacklablover is watching Golden Girls at 7PM. they ar reporting that 17 people were watching golden Girls at 7PM. Anyone who gets worried about all this stuff is just being silly.

**tastim** · 09-08-2008 11:29 PM

Google already knows you posted this and is working on a way to make money from it.

**okiekevn** · 09-08-2008 11:42 PM

thats why i wrap my receiver with foil. that way no one can spy on its brains.

**tastim** · 09-08-2008 11:46 PM

Seriously though... you didn't know what the phone line requirement was REALLY for already?

**Jim5506** · 09-09-2008 12:04 AM

Dish does it, TiVo does it, DirecTV does it, Yo mama does it...

**okiekevn** · 09-09-2008 12:34 AM

Originally Posted by Jim5506

Dish does it, TiVo does it, DirecTV does it, Yo mama does it...

you have no clue how correct you are. my mama snoops on me more then any other entity!!

**DishSubLA** · 09-09-2008 12:58 AM

We're all already being spied on: Echelon. It monitors every phone call, fax and every "private" electronic communications IN THE WORLD!

In addition, all your search strings are "spied on" as well as every web page you view. Your spending habits at the supermarket and every other retailer. Tivo has been doing the "Google ad" spy thing since its very beginning. It's the only way the really make money. It is the heart of Tivo non-existent or occasional profit. Tivo is NOT a DVR business; it is a data gathering business who use it the same way Google and Dish will. And don't think Direct TV and Cable don't spy as well. It shouldn't be this way, but it is. NOTHING NEW! Just the same erosion of privacy.

**Sammy033** · 09-09-2008 04:13 AM

It's a grand conspiracy involving Google and the Chinese. They hope to one day take over America by understanding our viewing habits and knowing how many people watch the New Gong Show. Be afraid. Be very afraid.