IP: LITTLE BROTHER MAY BE WATCHING YOU (WITH X10 VIDEOCAMS): from newsscan daily

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

>      A company called X10 Wireless Technology is marketing its tiny color
>      video cameras for their use in keeping an eye on your kids or even
>      engaging in voyeuristic activity. One ad for the $79.99 device
>      displays a bare-backed woman and the headline "Quit Spying on People!
>      (we never told you to do that)." The technology uses radio frequencies
>      for communication among devices within a 100-foot radius, and
>      represents a development that one attorney says "is outstripping
>      everything we once contemplated about privacy." X10 devices have been
>      found planted secretly in such places as college shower rooms,
>      attorneys' offices, and corporate meeting rooms. (San Jose Mercury
>      News 10 Sep 2001)
>      http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/027254.htm



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