_Hidden Spy Camera & Mic Found Inside Digital TV Box _ (h ttp://www.prisonplanet.com/hidden-spy-camera-mic-found-inside-digital-tv-bo...) Reason for forced digital switchover in US and UK: Government and industry watching us to build profiles, launch invasive advertising Paul Joseph Watson 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. We are not suggesting that every digital cable box has a spy camera and microphone inside, so ripping open your cable box is not a good way to prove this one way or another - but the fact remains that companies like Google and Comcast have openly announced that they plan to use hidden cameras and microphones inside their products to spy on consumers. 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_ (http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Whistleblower_Bushs_NSA_targeted_report... tml) , “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.” _As we highlighted three years ago_ (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/060906spyon.htm) ,  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 life_style_ 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.  (http://www.prisonplanet.tv/subscribe.html) The advent of digital video recording devices such as TiVo (Sky Plus in the UK) introduced the creation of psychological algorithm profiles - data_base_s 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 _ (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2005/280505tivoknows.htm) 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_ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/03/google_eavesdropping_software/)  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 _base_d on their preferences. _In March last year, Comcast announced that they were_ (http://newteevee.com/2008/03/18/comcast-cameras-to-start-watching-you/)  “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. 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Dean A. Ayers The truth is rarely pure and never simple. _http://AnimalsClubFreedom.us/_ (http://animalsclubfreedom.us/) United States Officially Certified Site Dean A. Ayers is a prior United States Air Force Special Agent for the AFOSI. His duties included that of law enforcement specialist, criminal, fraud, and counter-intelligence. He was assigned to felony crimes in federal government, fraud, waste and abuse investigations of the military branches of service, and counter-intelligence in overseas locations. Dean was also a former Texas State Commissioned Alamo State Park Armed Ranger. Dean is currently Director,_ Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom_ (http://animalsclubfreedom.org/)  National Organization and Dean is also a Lead Investigative Reporter for the NationalDogPress.com Headline News © and DogPress.org news press services. 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