Have not thought about. Apple has a patent for face recognition on phones. That got their thumbprint on the model 5s and they have the idea of scanning faces for security. Tore are interesting ways employ this. It also is a privacy concern. It raises concerns. Is looking at this. Privacy is a big issue. It is, you mentioned the retailers will set at the table to come up with these voluntary standards but privacy groups will do this as well. The Commerce Department will bring together the retailers but alsoaclu and they will meet in february and they will come up with a code of conduct by june. The technology we are talking about remember the movie minority report in 2002 . It portrayed a world where cameras in Public Places could read Public Places and target ads to that individual. We are not quite in that world just yet but the technology is there. We have been talking about Companies Including apple. Cameras can take better pictures in Public Places, Geolocation Technology is everyw
Tell us to talk to us. It is snowing up and down the east coast today. After two months of record cold snap, there are problems keeping up with the demand of salt. Welcome to Market Makers. K is off this week in colorado. Scarlet fu is helping me out. Good morning, you talked about comcast and time warner. The deal is more than 45 billion. Christina has been talking to executives and studying the fine print. Give us the overview. Pulled a shrewd move. It was talking to charter about and in thenturer middle of everything, it went around everyone and negotiated a deal on its own with time warner. It is the price the time warner wanted, 1. 60 per share. It becomes a matter of selling it to shareholders. Did that today on the call with analysts and its a big price. When you look at how historically these these stocks have traded, this is a phenomenal price and could spur some further consolidation. We are looking at some of the smaller players now that charter is left way behind. This is a
I think we should give full disclosier first. Comcast is the parent of our company, cnbc. By the way, the ceos of both companies, they were be joining david faber right here on squawk box coming up at 7 00 eastern time. Ive already had i was walking and thinking im going to leave this show with neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night. And i saw that was written into the prompter and i thought for a second, whose motto is that . The post office. Who wants to compare comcast to the post office . No one wants to be compared to the post office. I get my mail every day. You once talked about how effective they were and then we talked about they lose 8 billion a quarter. I want the post office toen continue. And i certainly dont want to make any postal workers mad. Should we talk about this . I think we should talk about it now. Its worth talking about. It has a lot of ramifications. Did we just pull the rug out from under them . I think charter eped it to be done, right . He wanted someone