Google plans to use PC microphones to spy on users

seriv writes: "The Register reports that google plans to use PC microphones to collect statistics on what users are watching on TV. Peter Norvig, who directs research at google, told Technology Review that this software would start to show up in google software rather soon. The software collects short sound clips and removes background noise. Google then targets its ads based on the statistics collected. With the current level of online privacy, this new level of invasion would seem to have frieghtning possibilities."