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The CIA has stated that it wants to do this.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/

Tech like the XBox One will make this pretty easy (as its microphone is always on and the Kinect cam is integrated).

I've always wondered how a government agency would reliably set up cameras in everyone's home 1984 style. I find it hilarious that we may just go down to Best Buy and install in our own homes.

There was of course that one amusing Onion article about some US intelligence agency making its own social network so that everyone would just voluntarily give up all their information.

Pretty sure there was one that Facebook just came out as a government front too.

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