Spy Tech: Here’s looking at you, kid!

Abby Martin of RT’s Breaking the Set and her producer, Manuel Rapalo, discuss the Top 5 creepiest big brother surveillance toys of 2012.

We’re not sure which is creepier, the cellular snitchery software or the Peeping Tom personnikins [if gendered terms are un-PC, why haven't we seen this one before we neologized it?].

And given that these are all commercially available, one has to wonder what else i out there in the hands of a government with the power to declare patents national security secrets. . .

Headline of the day: Television, watching you

From FierceCable:

Verizon patents targeted advertising method that determines if viewers are laughing, cuddling, sleeping or singing

‘Detection zone’ would extend to telephone conversations, pets