Cable that watches you back

Isn't it great to know that in the great USA your cable box will watch you? Isn't that great! Your cable box may have a camera inside it to peer into your lives to see who it recognizes -- you know, so it can customize your favorite channels. Just as Comcast! But don't worry, it's not going to recognize you based on face, just your body shape. So I guess if you're dieting and the cable box doesn't know who you are, congrats!

Couldn't you just imagine the bedroom! Lying there doing whatever it is you do when lying in bed watching TV. Couldn't you just imagine certain motions causing you to have a lineup of the skin channels, while others letting you see your crime dramas? Or just imagine the horror if your best friend comes in and the TV stations switch again.

I don't know about you all, but I can say without hesitation that when your TV starts watching you back, it's just another step to the end. Maybe not the end of life, but the end of something; privacy comes to mind. I could only imagine what would happen if the cameras actually had clear pictures, and some hacker found a way to get live feeds into America's bedrooms. The "greatest" porn site of them all would be launched "Comcast bedrooms" or "Hidden bedroom cams" -- come to think of it, they probably already exist.