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To be quite frank its desturbing the way things are moving.

Mobile phones, internet. Wait did you see the cable conference recently a few new cable boxes can target advertising to that user.

Also something which I found out about how the GPS sat navs systems work.

Turns out some makes of car manufacturers agreed for some time to have a GPS system placed in the cars such as BMW, vauxall and they track those cars. Those cars are then monitored and when they are stuck in jams or slow moving ithe company which provides the TMC traffic data flags the problems and then send out those tmc data. I think they also use mobile phones too to help collate this information. As well using sensors in the roads to compile traffic issues and Highways agency list of roadworks.

So its not always a bad thing monitoring but certain monitoring is blatantly intrusive. I would be very worried also about the next gen cable boxes.