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Using your TVs energy profile to determine what you were actually watching
- onion2k 13y agoIn the UK we have a TV license fee that you need to pay in order to watch television as it's broadcast live. The way the license fee is enforced was by a fleet of detector vans driving around measuring the EM signature of televisions in houses. Allegedly, at least, for there's a theory that the vans never actually did anything. Exactly what these people in the article are doing, but mobile, and since the 1970s. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage_tv.htm http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom#Detection_technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Uni...