ERT [the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation] — the Greek national public television broadcaster — was closed last week on the orders of conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in a move designed to placate the country’s international lenders.
Late Monday, following a court ruling reversing the closure of major public outrage, members of the coalition government claimed they had reached an agreement which would appoint a special manager to decide just how many of the network’s 2,700 pink-slipped employees would get their jobs back.
The 11 June shutdown was dramatic:
Equally dramatic was the reaction both inside Greece and within the larger European Union.
From Euronews:
There are fears the country may well be on its way to an early election, if coalition parties cannot reach agreement about ERT’s closure.
“You decided and commanded to silence the state television, tarnishing both democracy and freedom of speech. Such things happen on only on two occasions, minister: only when there is a foreign invasion of the country or when there is a collapse of democracy,” said the Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras.
The European Broadcasting Union fried off its own protest to Samaras:
President of the EBU, Jean Paul Philippot and the EBU Director General, Ingrid Deltenre urged Mr Samaras “to use all his powers to immediately reverse this decision”.
The existence of public service media and their independence from government lie at the heart of democratic societies, and therefore any far-reaching changes to the public media system should only be decided after an open and inclusive democratic debate in Parliament – and not through a simple agreement between two government ministers.
In the letter, the EBU stresses the importance of public service media as an essential pillar of democratic and pluralistic societies across Europe.
The ousted Greek broadcasters proved resilient, occupying the studios and continuing to send out programming via satellite and over the Internet.
Samaras’s actions prompted a call for a national strike and threaten to shatter the coalition government.
Reuters reports on the response of the occupying journalists, who had been earing a mere €1,200 a month, the equivalent of $19,250 a year:
“What we’re saying is that we want public TV to belong to those who pay for it, and that’s the citizens of this country,” anchorwoman Chrysa Roumelioti said on air as her co-presenter nodded somberly. “Let them be the ones to judge us.”
A bevy of studio guests, from French and Italian journalists to local celebrities and actors, stopped by to express their outrage and solidarity.
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“We feel angry and scared and cheated,” Maria Alexaki, a 31-year-old foreign news editor told Reuters from the newsroom as she finished presenting her morning show.
“It still hasn’t sunk in, but our heart and soul is here. We’re doing our shows not for us but for all the people out there who are demanding a public broadcaster.”
In this clip, ERT journalists occupying the studios report on protests outside the station as Greeks mobilized in support of the workers:
Journalists across the country struck in protest, and a movement began, symbolized by this poster from Keep Talking Greece “with the help of Spanish internet friend ‘Todos Somos Griegos’”:
The shock of the shutdown of an emblematic institution threatened to shatter the coalition of conservative New Democracy, Pasok [the Greek socialist party], and Democratic Left.
To Vima reported Monday that
the Prime Minister’s relationship with his two government partners Evangelos Venizelos and Fotis Kouvelis has suffered dearly.
The three partners are one step before a full-blown conflict, a development that would cause a monumental shock to the country’s political system. This is also the first time that the Prime Minister’s method of operation is openly questioned.
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The Prime Minister’s decision to show down ERT despite the objections of Venizelos and Kouvelis during their meeting at Mr. Samaras’ home has dramatically exacerbated their relations. The PASOK and DIMAR leaders are furious at Mr. Samaras, who maintains he did the right thing and operated democratically, while claiming that Mr. Venizelos and Kouvelis were aware of the ERT shutdown.
Then came a key court ruling Monday, as reported by Lefteris Papadimas and Renee Maltezou of Reuters:
A Greek court on Monday ordered the state broadcaster back on air while it is restructured, allowing squabbling coalition leaders to move towards a compromise that avoids early elections.
The ruling came six days after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras suddenly switched ERT off to save money and please foreign lenders, sparking an outcry from unions, journalists and exposing a rift with his allies.
The top administrative court appeared to vindicate Samaras’s stance that a leaner, cheaper public broadcaster must be set up but also allowed for ERT’s immediate reopening as his two coalition partners had demanded, offering all three a way out of an impasse that had raised the spectre of a snap election.
The leading party in the governing coalition, the conservative New Democracy, said last Tuesday that ERT suffered from chronic mismanagement, lack of transparency and waste.
It shut the broadcaster down with the loss of nearly 2,700 jobs. Viewers saw TV screens go black as the signal was switched off.
Greece’s top administrative court – the Council of State – upheld Mr Samaras’s plan to replace ERT with a new broadcaster later this year but backed the position of the other coalition partners that the signal must be restored in the interim.
The case was brought by ERT’s union in an attempt to overturn Mr Samaras’s surprise move.
The inevitable political meetings followed the court ruling.
From Ekathemerini:
In a statement after the meeting, PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos said the court ruling had “vindicated” PASOK and stressed the need for an overhaul of the government, hinting at a reshuffle. “The talks were about ERT, but the main issue is for the government to operate as a real coalition, not with New Democracy just tolerating its partners,” Venizelos said. He called on Samaras to “examine the ruling” and take “bold moves.”
Fotis Kouvelis of Democratic Left made a similar statement, condemning the premier for taking the “unilateral action” to close ERT.
Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras, who also attended the talks, had a different interpretation; he said it determined that ERT should stay closed while a temporary program is broadcast. “The big issue for the government is for radical reforms to continue,” he said, expressing hopes that coalition leaders would “converge” in fresh talks tomorrow.
But a later announcement Monday declared that a settlement had been reached.
EnetEnglish reports:
The coalition leaders’ meeting has concluded. Speaking to reporters, junior coalition leaders Fotis Kouvelis and Evangelos Venizelos welcomed the Council of State’s decision. Venizelos stressed that “no government can go against the majority of parliament… this is what happened in ERT’s case,” before confirming that there will soon be a government reshuffle and a revision of the government’s programme agreement. The coalition leaders will meet again on Wednesday.
A specially appointed manager will have the right to either retain ERT’s staff or proceed with as many layoffs as he deems necessary, the head of the Council of State, Konstantinos Menoudakos, has said regarding the council’s decision.
The Council of State ruling does not cover ERT’s two orchestras and choir, so it’s unclear what their fate will be.
German economy to slow this summer, warns Bundesbank
The German economy will slow this summer after a spring recovery, the Bundesbank predicted in a report, citing weaker industrial orders and export data
Once a staple of authoritative communication across the Indian subcontinent, the telegram has lost too much ground to smartphones. One devotee is threatening a Gandhi-style fast.
Hart argues that laws, public policy, and much scientific discourse on drugs is misdirected, based on myth rather than science, and used to disguise the real causes of the conditions attributed to illegal drug use.
Hart’s personal story supports his broader argument. If drugs alone caused poverty, crime, and family dysfunction, Hart would have been unlikely to grow up to be a happily married father and tenured Ivy League faculty member.
Here’s his response to Alternet’s Kristen Gwynne’s question, “What is actually responsible for problems often linked to drugs?”
Poverty. And there are policies that have played a role, too. Policies like placing a large percentage of our law enforcement resources in those communities, so that when people get charged with some petty crime, they have a blemish on their record that further decreases their ability to join mainstream, get a job that’s meaningful, and that sort of thing.
The policy decisions that we make play a far bigger role than the drugs themselves. When I turned 14, for example, there was a federal government program that, in order to keep kids like me out of the streets, gave us jobs. Under these federal government programs, we had money for the summer, for clothing—it was great. When we cut these types of programs and kids have nowhere to go what do you expect to happen? It doesn’t take rocket scientists to figure this out.
Now, I have an 18-year-old who, this summer, won’t have anything to do. I’m trying to find him some sort of work. Having a federal government program for underprivileged children, that was great. That let kids know that the society might care about you. We teach them work skills, we teach them something about responsibility, we make sure they have money in their pockets. Now, you take away all of this, and you miss the chance to teach them about responsibility. You miss the opportunity to help them put food on the table, to put clothes on their backs.
This 20-minute documentary from Journeyman Pictures, offers a concise look at the new bonanza that is fracking, creating a 21st Century version of the Gold Rush, complete with boom towns, exorbitant paychecks, and vanished unemployment while the rush is on.
The video also gives a fascinating look at some of the deeper geopolitical issues at play with fracking while devoting less attention to the environmental issues. The documentary provides some important context for understanding a critical issue certain to play an increasingly dominant role in U.S. and global politics.
Two notable participants are Rob de Wijk, chair of the Dutch National Security Think Tank and director of the The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, and René Peters, director of gas technology for TNO [the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research] and considered a leading European natural gas expert.
From the icy wastelands of North Dakota, an energy revolution is transforming global politics. Shale gas has made the US gas-independent, but at what cost to the environment, Europe and Middle-Eastern stability?
Williston is a boom-town in every sense of the word. By night the city shines brighter than New York, as flare-stacks burn off excess gas. By day it’s swamped with new arrivals, keen to join the new gold rush. “If I could get you driving a truck, you could probably make $100,000 dollars a year.” Economic developer Tom Rolf is proud to live in the only recession-proof town in the US. But as space becomes scarce tensions are bubbling to the surface. One local is distraught: “We shouldn’t have to suffer when the government is making trillions”. And the worries aren’t limited to local concerns. As the US begins freeing itself from dependency on Middle-Eastern oil Europe frets over where it will get its energy supplies in the future. European expert Rob de Wijk explains, “This is also about the safety of Europe in connection with what’s happening in the Middle East. We’re on our own now.”
Some truly bad news for ink-stained wretches today from Gallup, graphic proof that the massive layoffs and all-too-numerous closings of the nation’s newspapers are taking their toll:
The California Public Records Act (CPRA) is gravely threatened by stealth amendments revealed for the first time yesterday as part of a “trailer bill” to the new state budget. Instead of the relatively minor cost-saving tweaks proposed earlier by the Governor and approved in legislative committees, the actual amending language will gut key transparency safeguards in California’s most important open-government law.
I am writing to ask you to call on Governor Brown to veto the relevant portions of the budget trailer bill that is headed to his desk as early as tomorrow. We invite you to do this by email to the Governor office, using the form provided in this email.
How, exactly, will the budget trailer bill undercut the CPRA and set back open government?
1) Public access to data controlled by local governments, so important to open-data and big-data initiatives, will come to an end. The final trailer bill, SB 71, eliminates the requirement of existing law that agencies must make available “electronic” records or information in “any format” in which the agency already holds them. Gov Code sec. 6253.9(a)(1). Instead, according to SB 71, “the local agency may determine the format of electronic data to be provided in response to a request for information.”
This change will empower local governments to limit data access to situations in which the requested data will show government agencies and officials in a positive light. All other requests for data will be blocked by producing data in formats that are unusable in databases. Example: Requests for data held in .xls (Excel) or .csv formats will be produced (if at all) as .pdf files–even though the agency has the data in the requested formats and therefore can provide it in the requested formats at no cost.
2) Local governments, when denying written requests for public records, will no longer be required to give a reason for the denial. SB 71 purports to make that common sense requirement (found in Gov Code sec. 6255(b)) completely optional. What does optional mean? You can be sure that all lawyers for cities, counties or school boards,once they become aware of this change, will advise their clients to give no reasons for denying records.
3) Local governments may even take the position that SB 71′s changes free them from any obligation to communicate–at all!—with requesters about the status of a denied CPRA request. Agencies that believe requested records are exempt from disclosure could elect to say nothing to the requester, leaving him/her in the dark, unable to determine–without suing–whether the requested records will be disclosed or withheld.
Tell Governor Brown to veto the provisions of SB 71 that would effect these changes in existing law. The link below opens an email form with an email message for the Governor and his staff (which we will print out and deliver). You can use the email message content provided or delete it and write an email in your own words. FAC@firstamendmentcoalition.org
Mickey Mouse died in Vietnam in the name of what they called the Domino Theory, the notion that should Communists win in Vietnam, the event would trigger takeovers in other countries, analogous to a cascade of falling dominos.
Here’s how Dwight David Eisenhower summed it up in a 1954 press conference:
Finally, you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the “falling domino” principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.
Vietnam fell, but not India, or Thailand, or most of the other dominoes predicted to fall.
All of which is a long way of getting to this video, in which the gaming tiles are replaced by books. . .lots of books.
The program notes from the Seattle Public Liubrary:
The Seattle Public Library launched the 2013 Summer Reading Program by setting a new world record for the longest book domino chain!
The books used to make this domino chain were either donated or are out of date and no longer in the library’s collection. They are now being sold by the Friends of Seattle Public Library to help raise money for library programs and services.
No books were harmed during the filming of this video.
More detail from the World Record Academy:
The Seattle Public Library kicked off its summer reading season by toppling 2,131 books that are part of an upcoming book sale; it took 27 volunteers and seven hours to set the new world record for the Longest Book Domino Chain, according to the World Record Academy: www.worldrecordacademy.com/.
The world record attempt was setup by 27 volunteers on the third floor of the Seattle Central Library with one portion of the books spelling “read.” At one point, a book had to fall from a shelf to the floor to continue the domino chain.
“We had to be packed up and out of the building by midnight,” Amy Twito, the Library’s youth program manager, said in a statement. “Everyone was so happy that we were able to break the record.”
It took seven hours to set the chain up in its entirety — however the volunteers had to go through the agony of five failed attempts when the chain was set off too early by accident.
Lisa J. Radcliffe, a UC Berkeley graduate who now practices family law in Pleasant Hill, found herself in a unique role at a unique moment of 20th Century history — examining documents seized after student activists seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979, triggering the Iranhostagecrisis [still celebrated in Iran] and setting the stage for Ronald Reagan’s first political dirty trick.
While Radcliffe is currently working on a memoir of her experiences titled Pebbles in the Rice [SLYT], she appeared on a 1979 episode of Alternative Views [previously], the long-running public access program created by University of Texas, Austin, philosopher Douglas Kellner and Frank Morrow.
The story she tells is an important reminder of some of the many reasons Iranians hold less-than-fond views of the American political system.
In a stunning and emotional powerful program, an Iranian poet and political dissident vividly describes his incarceration and torture at the hands of the Shah’s police — SAVAK. Additionally, Lisa Radcliffe, who recently returned from an extensive trip to Iran, relates her experiences. She also shows the State Department documents which the students holding the hostages gave her, documenting CIA involvement and counter-revolutionary activity of the U.S. which continued right up to the takeover of the embassy.
Living in Torturing Dictator Shah’s IRAN after CIA Operation Ajax – Two insider’s Views
Convicted spy Christopher Boyce, sentenced to 40 years in federal prison in 1977 for selling NSA secrets to the Soviets [a tale told in Robert Lindsey’s brilliant 1979 text The Falcon and the Snowman, in an interview with Peter Shadbolt of CNN:
Do I think the government wants revenge against Snowden? Absolutely, they want revenge. They want to ensure anyone who even thinks about doing what he did does so with fear in their hearts.
With respect to these agencies wanting to protect the interests of the states they serve, I ask this question: Is it in the interest of the United States and the American people to have billions of their communications secretly monitored by a government? And to have Congress lied to about it? I don’t think that’s in the interest of the American people. Is the interest of the United States government the same as the interest of the American people? Not always. Not in this situation, anyway.
Of course, there’s still a lot that has to be played out. But I think that revenge is the key driving force by those individuals who stand to get into a heap of trouble as a result of these secrets being made public — the big shot bureaucrats in the national intelligence community. Not that it’s in the interest of the American people to be kept in the dark about it, but simply because of the repercussions those individuals behind the scenes could face. They could be retired early, or lose their pensions, or be disgraced, or be hauled in front of Senate subcommittees, or all manner of bad things. I’m sure there are many things the NSA and CIA don’t want the public to know about, principally because the players behind the scenes could get into serious trouble if it became known.
EU-US trade talks to start after France wins culture clause
From the London Telegraph, a word of alarm about the rising titan:
Fitch says China credit bubble unprecedented in modern world history
China’s shadow banking system is out of control and under mounting stress as borrowers struggle to roll over short-term debts, Fitch Ratings has warned
‘The worst case of scientific censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of Galileo’: Scientists call for drugs to be legalised to allow proper study of their properties
NSA spying flap extends to contents of U.S. phone calls
National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too.
Via Google translation from the German Nerdcore original:
I fixed Shepard Faires Obama-Poster to fit PRISM. Also: Happy 64th, George Orwells 1984!
I’ve updated Shepard Fairy’s Obama poster for the year 2013. I’ve even seeing eye in place of Obey Giants Signet packed into the lower left corner, so that’s really consistent.
After a five-month hiatus, Robert Foster is back with a new, star-studded episode JUICE RAP NEWS [previously] featuring Edward Snowden, journalist Glenn Greenwald, Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg, and more, dealing with the issue de jour.
Rap News 19. It started off as a slow news day, and a routine update on the state of the Free World Order with NSA Director General Baxter. But then the news broke of startling revelations from the fearless paladin of adversarial journalism, guardian of civil liberties, journalist Glen Greenwald, concerning a shadowy spying program called PRISM. Who is behind these revelations, and how should we view them? How will the Authorities, and the Corporations implicated, respond? Join Robert Foster for a whirlwind summary of the events in this ongoing saga…
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We bring you reports from three countries, Peruo, Chile, and Brazil.
Peruvian students protest law changes
Latin America has a grand tradition of autonomous universities, self-governing institutions which set their own destinies and are off-limits to law enforcement.
But the concept is under attack in Peru, and students have been taking to the streets in protest. The story has passed almost without notice here in the U.S., and we learned of it only though a post at For what we are… they will be.
Via a Google translation of the Spanish language original at Webguerrillero:
Thousands of Peruvian students have continued on Saturday and for a third day protesting against the project of the New University Act.
Some 6000 students of the National University San Antonio Abad have taken to the streets of Cusco, in southeastern Peru, to express their opposition to the new law, they say, university autonomy injured.
Those present at the protest say the project violates the freedom of expression of students and establishes regulatory bodies to supervise the higher education institutions in the interests of politicians and businessmen.
“We question what violates the autonomy of universities and students sanctions ranging from reprimand to permanent expulsion” said Miguel Angel Quispe Huaman, vice president of the University Federation Cusco (FUC).
During the protests on Thursday and Friday were clashes between students and police, which left dozens injured and at least four students arrested.
Chilean students hurled Molotov cocktails and rocks at police in the latest mass demonstration to demand the government overhaul the educational system.
Most of the demonstrators — which local reports indicated police had estimated at 45,000 while student organizers said there were more than 80,000 — remained peaceful as they marched through central Santiago streets carrying banners demanding free higher education and condemning conservative President Sebastian Pinera.
Students, both secondary and university, have led regular demonstrations, calling for a free and quality education for all Chileans since the protest movement started in 2011.
More coverage, without narration, from RT:
The program notes:
In Chile, thousands of students angered at rising education costs, clashed with police in the capital, who responded with tear gas and water cannons. The students had flooded the streets for a peaceful march, still wearing their uniforms and backpacks, before it then turned violent. At least 40 were arrested. The students oppose the fact they have to pay 75% of the cost of their own educations – one of the highest rates in the world.
Brazilian protests target transport fare hikes
It’s not just students who are taking to South American streets, as the Wall Street Journal’s Loretta Caho reports:
The latest in a string of protests against transportation-fare increases turned violent on Thursday, as tensions grow over unemployment and rising inflation in Brazil.
Thousands of protesters gathered in the late afternoon at the Municipal Theater in central São Paulo and marched through the city center. Just after 7 p.m., police began firing tear gas into the crowd, sending protesters running. People screamed “Fascist police!” and threw stones at the police as smoke filled the air.
The demonstration was the fourth since last week in response to a nearly 7% increase in public transport fares in the city to 3.20 reais, or about $1.50. It was also met with the most force so far by police – by the end of the demonstration late Thursday night, after officers in riot gear pursued and shot at groups of protesters all around the city center, dozens of people had been detained. Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reported that seven of its reporters were hit, with rubber bullets, including two who were shot in the face.
The violence spread Saturday to target the government’s plan to spend million on hosting the 2014 world soccer championship, as the BBC reports:
Up to 1,000 Brazilians demonstrated outside the country’s national stadium to vent their anger at the amount of money the country is spending on staging next year’s World Cup.
Police used tear gas and pepper spray to control protestors before the match, in which Brazil beat Japan 3-0.
There were also reports rubber bullets were used and 30 arrests were made.
Demonstrators held up posters reading: “We don’t need the World Cup” and “We need money for hospitals and education”.
A blast from the past and one of two great iconic animation shorts that came out of the late 1960s, Mickey Mouse in Vietnam subverts a cartoon icon in a sudden, dramatic, and absolutely final way.
In 1968, an underground, anti-war short film was produced by Lee Savage and Milton Glaser called Mickey Mouse in Vietnam.
The short (unofficially) starred Mickey Mouse in a one minute animation that depicted the Disney icon travelling to Vietnam in a boat, entering the country, and being immediately shot in the head. The film was shown to associates of the creators in 1970 and onward. It is rumoured (though unconfirmed) that Disney tried to destroy every copy that they could get in their possession.
Until recently, the only known copies available for public viewing were one owned by the Sarajevo Film Festival (although the last time it was played there was in 2010), and one included on the Film-makers’ Coop’s 38 minute, 16mm collection reel titled For Life, Against the War (Selections), available for rental at $75 (though only to members of relevant organisations). The only pieces of hard evidence of the short’s existence available online were a few screenshots (all but one found in a 1998 French book entitled ‘Bon Anniversaire, Mickey!’).
Savage was an animation painter and Glaser a graphic designer whose most famous creation is the “I ♥ NY” logo.
As for the other cartoon? Here tis. . .a 1959 creation of Marv Newland subverting yet another Disney icon.
If you farm Monsanto’s genetically modified crops, you don’t own them — as farmers quickly learned when they did what farmers have done since the first furrow was plowed, namely, planted some of last year’s harvest seeds in this year’s fields. Then they discover that they only leased the right to grow and sell one season’s crops.
In other words, farmers no longer owned seeds. Rather, they leased them and were denied the right to replant because the crops contained patented self-reproducing intellectual technology.
What an incredible discovery: You could appear to sell some thing while retaining actual ownership — including the right to lend, lease, or sell the product in question.
In one generation, the farmer had been transformed from an independent producer into a dependent corporate semi-serf.
It was nothing less than a counterrevolution, a return to a sort of feudalism.
But the same thing happens already with recorded music, entertainment, and books — transformed from physical objects like vinyl, CDs, DVD, reels of film, audio- and videotape, and bound volumes into packets of digital data reproducible only as leased rights operating on proprietary platforms. Buyers cease to be owners, and lose the right to freely sell or trade what they think they’ve bought.
The more dependent we become, the more restrictive the rights.
Media customers, like farmers, have been transformed from owners to renters, all because the artificial construct that is the corporation, operating in cahoots with banksters, hopes to claim ownership of quite simply everything.
Once in a while people catch on. . .
Here’s an example, from Chris Suellentrop of the New York Times:
Microsoft has proposed limiting players’ ability to resell games that will be made for the Xbox One, due in stores in November. Companies that create games for Xbox One, Microsoft said, will be able effectively to prevent consumers from reselling the games by ensuring that the resold games no longer function on the console. No companies that create games have yet indicated that they will exercise this right.
This controversy led to the odd spectacle on Monday: At an industry event devoted to new games, there was raucous enthusiasm for the untrammeled right to sell and purchase old games.
Microsoft is promising new experiences with the Xbox One, which will require a constant Internet connection, because hundreds of thousands of machines in the cloud will enhance an individual console’s computational power. But players seem to be hearing only what is being taken away by Microsoft’s online monitoring of their gaming: the ability to resell or give away your games to whomever you choose, whenever you choose.
But Microsoft is going Monsanto one better. The product you leased keeps track of your every mood and move.
From Benjy Sarlin of MSNBC:
Edward Snowden told the Washington Post last week that he leaked the National Security Agency’s top secret surveillance programs in part because he feared the Internet becoming “a TV that watches you.”
What to make, then, of an Internet-connected household computer that requires users to install a futuristic microphone and camera able to track their movement—and even heart rate and mood—in pitch black?
The device in question is Microsoft’s Xbox One, the much anticipated gaming console hitting the market this holiday season. And while its features promise an unprecedented level of interactivity for gaming, they’re fueling concerns among gamers that they could be used to spy on the family living room.
