How long until they start putting cameras in them and doing facial recognition?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/07...
Essentially the stated purpose is so that it can pick up what music you listen to throughout the day, but in reality it's picking up everything.
You'd also have pets captured, curtains flapping by an open window captured, and any toys kids are playing with (like balls) potentially captured as another viewer too.
Meanwhile pap who likes to sit motionlessly while the kids round around him, isn't detected.
> without invading too much on people's privacy
Motion detection feels like a pretty major privacy violation to me.
> You wouldn't know the age, but you already have ton of information by knowing the address and the subscriber already.
Except when you have friends or family over.
If it's opaque to visible light how does the camera produce an image?
>if you put tape on it your remote wouldn't work anymore.
Not really? You just have to be more careful placing the tape. Besides, nowadays many smart TV have app remote controls, or RF-based remote controls so the IR sensor being blocked is a non-issue
It isn't opaque to infrared light though. The image is still high enough quality to make out people, it looks funny but it is good enough for their purposes.