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by capableweb 2261 days ago
Bonus points if you add a webcam that face scans the person who is standing in front of them, matches the face with the numerous profiles built from people (some combination of Facebook + Twitter + GitHub would probably find most people), get their birthday and show the frontpage from when they were born.
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I am not sure if this is a reference to telescreen from 1984 or not.
Kind of but the vital difference that the entities holding the data are for-profit companies with no oversight instead of governments with no oversight.
Or if they were ever in the paper..