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| reply to major marco
Re: telescreen No problem 
Probably do have similar policies. Don't think Cox gets the same level of detailed logs that Tivo does (everybody rewound Janet's "wardrobe malfunction), but they can tell what channel the tuner(s) are set to etc...
Hearing that thing about Tivo is kind of eye opening though, and I read the fine print on my "notice" when getting the DVR, but it said specifically that they don't track what's being recorded... If it's on a channel, it's buffering what you see anyway...
As for Cox's policy, I think you can request the little booklet from the local office or from a customer service rep.
Overall, I don't care if they see what channel I'm on, but would seriously object to having an "eye" into my living room. The current policy seems pretty non-invasive in my opinion. If it's true, it's definitely less invasive than Tivo's monitoring of every single remote click.
Tivo monitoring through the ages 
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2002
»news.cnet.com/Nielsen-begins-mon···580.html
2004
»blogcritics.org/scitech/article/···brother/
2007
»www.pvrwire.com/2007/01/31/tivo-···tistics/
2009
»www.geek.com/articles/news/tivo-···0090421/ |
