Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
A popular video circulating on You Tube shows the discovery of a spy camera and a microphone hidden inside a digital TV converter box. Such devices are part of a government and industry surveillance program that is undoubtedly connected to the forced digital TV switchover being rolled out in the UK and US.
“I could not believe my eyes,” states the blurb accompanying the video clip, “I have a friend who is kind of a conspiracy theorist. He was trying to convince me that many of the digital TV convert boxes that are coming out have microphones and cameras built into them. Knowing a bit about electronics I bought one of these devices opened it up fully intending on proving him wrong. To my surprise he was right. This device has both a miniature camera lens and what looks like a microphone. I was so shocked I took pictures and video. Please send this out to everyone you know who is using one of these devices.”
The camera and microphone were hidden inside a MAGNAVOX TB110MW9 Digital to Analog Converter box.
Watch the clip below.
The need to mandate a mass roll out of such hidden surveillance devices is undoubtedly one of the reasons that governments in both the UK and the US, as well as eventually the entire planet, are overseeing a forced switchover to digital TV and killing traditional analogue broadcasts. The vast majority of TV’s require a digital decoder box to receive digital TV transmissions.
By installing covert spy devices and hidden microphones inside our all but mandatory digital boxes, the government and whatever corporate entities get a slice of the pie, have direct access to our living rooms. This is the ultimate Big Brother scenario whereby the majority of Americans and Europeans will have Orwellian telescreens watching their every move.
Many will dismiss such claims as conspiracy fodder, but the fact is that Americans have been spied on for decades, previously under the Echelon program and more recently as part of the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.
As former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice recently revealed, “The National Security Agency had access to all Americans’ communications — faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications,” Tice claimed. “It didn’t matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications.”
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As we highlighted three years ago, private industry and eventually government is planning to use microphones in the computers of an estimated 150 million-plus Internet active Americans, as well as similar devices installed inside digital TV boxes, to spy on their lifestyle choices and build psychological profiles which will be used for surveillance and minority report style invasive advertising and data mining.
Digital cable TV boxes, such as Scientific Atlanta, have had secret in-built microphones inside them since their inception in the late 1990’s and these originally dormant devices were planned to be activated when the invasive advertising revolution was being rolled out, a watershed that is quickly becoming a reality.
The advent of digital video recording devices such as TiVo (Sky Plus in the UK) introduced the creation of psychological algorithm profiles - databases on what programs you watched, how long you watched them for, and which adverts you liked or didn’t like. This information was retained by TiVo and sold to the highest bidders - an example being Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction during the 2003 Super Bowl half-time show TiVo were able to compile lists of how many people had rewound the clip and how many times they had replayed it.
In 2006, Google announced that they would use in-built computer microphones to listen in on user’s background noise, be it television, music or radio - and then direct advertising at them based on their preferences.
In March last year, Comcast announced that they were “experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.”
The cameras would use body-form recognition to confirm who was in the room and then tailor program recommendations, as well as commercials, to target that member of the family.
The video below covers the issue of secret cameras installed inside digital TV boxes and their relation to the forced digital switchover. A further video explores other motives behind the digital switchover.
Research related articles:
- Camera, Microphone in Magnavox Digital Conversion Box
- Apple files patent for camera hidden behind display
- L.A. ministers asked to spread the word about digital TV
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April 6th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/converter.asp </br> Snopes, use it before posting bullshit.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
At night the TV makes a clicking noise…even when it is not on.Sometimes it makes that clicking noies then in a hour or so it does it again…Can’t tell if it is going on or off though. I tell you the truth!.I put a towel or blanket over the TV now when I am sitting without the TV on, because I feel the TV is watching or listening to me while it is off! Try this yourself! Listen for the clicking noise….but don’t see the TV go on, it’s the biult in video and recorder going on! SPYING ON YOU!The TV knows when I turn the Internet on also! It will click again after I turn the PC On. This is deffenetley like privacy out the freaking window…Can we do that to he guys who are doing that to us? Waht about us watching the big wigs in the stae office or in Washington? Why can’t we see what they are doing?Those guys are getting really Paraniod they are making us regular and good peole into enemies and thugs!You really can’t do or go anywhere anymore without someone or something sticking thier noses in everything you do.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
They got all of this NEW technology from UFO technology~! Since The Mexico incident ROSWELL! didn’t you all see how things here have advanced like… With-in so many years?NoWay could that have happened without some guidance and not by us! My TV just clicked again..It knows I am talking about U-No-What! The BIG NO NO subject that started all of this stuff in the first place! And the next thing will be…Being able to come into your house by invisibility..and you knwo what? They are doing that already also! Remote Veiwing….The other thing they got from UFO space Technology! We are not that stupid and we know they era hiding techonology not of this earth. There I said it ! If you think that is funny..watch Technology of the Gods….about the Paramids…try to explain that…You won’t though..I bet they will and can but it is the Big No No subject. It’s the future it was brought to you from space!
March 4th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
If they are spying on us why don’t we give something to look at people with converter boxes can turn them sideways toward the cabinet and put a little note telling them they got caught spying on us or a bible verse and people with TV’s can tape a piece of burlap in front of the spot where the remote gets the signal I believe that is where the camera is at it can get the signal and hide the camera’s picture
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