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Your TV Is Spying On You (www.ludlowinstitute.org)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.

Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.

Welcome to the future of "entertainment."

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[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Mine ain't, I'm using an ancient dumb TV.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not, but I've disconnected the Internet from it. It can try all it wants to send the data to the mother ship.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago

Soon they may come with cellular capacity. Cars and e-bikes already do.

You gotta Faraday cage it!

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

even better we dont use tv anymore, just a PC.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 points 7 hours ago

Still gonna need a large screen somehow unless you watch all your stuff at the desk or through a laptop.

[–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

99% of what we watch is from streaming (Netflix, YouTube, etc). A dumb tv with a Chromecast probably isn't any better.