We’re no longer talking about recording the keystrokes or URL referrer logs of an individual ‘computer user’. Now we’re talking about video and audio recording of EVERYONE in the same room, office, cubicle, proximity etc - regardless of whether or not those inhabitants of the pc’s vicinity have granted a “perpetual allowance” to be spied upon.

You can’t possibly be suggesting, via the “phone bug” analogy that because some government agencies have the ability to legally bug our telephones, we should give Flash enabled advertisers the ability to bug our homes as well?

Secondly, no one in their right mind would grant a “permanent allowance” to be spied upon by any advertising company, would they?

This seems to be a worthless-garbage-novelty feature that detracts from the many nice features of Flash MX and player. Its inclusion should be seriously reconsidered in upcoming versions.