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Texas sues TV makers for taking screenshots of what people watch
According to complaints filed this Monday in Texas state courts, the TV makers can allegedly use ACR technology to capture screenshots of television displays every 500 milliseconds, monitor the users' viewing activity in real time, and send this information back to the companies' servers without the users' knowledge or consent.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/texas-sues-tv-makers-for-spying-on-users-selling-data-without-consent/

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Alexstarfire
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A broken clock and all.

I'm so tired of "smart" tech. "Smart" is becoming synonymous with abuse. Seems like that's all these companies do with it.

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AmbitiousProcess (they/them)
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Every time I buy any piece of technology, seeing "smart" in the title makes me immediately look for something else.

I want a label printer. Not something that only works with a mobile app, not something that requires proprietary drivers and doesn't work on my OS, not something that can only be used with your specific software, not one that requires your labels with a special NFC tag to use, just a label printer that is just as compatible as any regular printer.

I ended up paying about a 5X premium compared to alternatives on the market for that, and I would do it again.

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bobs_monkey
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If you connect you TV directly to the internet, that's on you at this point.
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BertramDitore
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I get what you’re saying, and I accept that reality for most of us here who already understand these things. But blaming consumers for corporate surveillance is not a good way to get corporations to stop surveilling consumers.
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slacktoid
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Right it only makes people feed shame and then be quiet for "falling for a scam" that invaded their privacy and double down. We can argue about how when you get scammed you should talk about it etc, but that's how people operate.
The others are just apathetic about privacy being dead.
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bobs_monkey
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I mean I hate to say it, but at this point what are our options? Because our elected representatives refuse to do their jobs and these corps keep doing shady shit without consequences. I don't mean to victim blame or anything, but with the current state of affairs, the onus is on the user to protect themselves.
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AmbitiousProcess (they/them)
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our elected representatives refuse to do their jobs


This is under a post about elected representatives quite literally doing their jobs and suing corporations for doing this.

They might be couching it in language about it all being because of the "Chinese Communist Party surveilling Americans", but they're still trying to stop the practice.

the onus is on the user to protect themselves.


It's good when users can protect themselves. It's easy to forget that these companies design their products specifically to make people set them up how the manufacturer wants, and not all of them will even work without being connected to the internet.

The average person is not technically literate whatsoever. You're telling people to take personal responsibility for their privacy when they barely know how any technology works, and are surrounded by corporations who's budgets go towards finding new ways to convince people to give up their privacy in the most effective ways.

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MagnificentSteiner
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Meanwhile, also in Texas, the police will trawl cameras nationwide to track you if you get an abortion. I guess it's OK as long as it's their surveillance network.

She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Lawmakers who support reproductive rights must recognize that abortion access and mass surveillance are incompatible.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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themurphy
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Lol, it's like this with everything.

USA is tracking every single movement in your house, and throws a fit when China collects some meta data.

They just act like the survelliance is bad by blaming a foregin state, then doing something way worse.


Yes, Wi-Fi Routers Can Detect Movement In Your House - Here's How

Your Wi-Fi router is capable of detecting your movement. When you move or breathe, there are tiny disruptions in wireless signals that can be tracked.
Daksh Chaudhary (SlashGear)
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njm1314
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Is an Administration that has been fighting against the right to privacy now trying to make an argument based upon privacy?
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