
CTV industry’s unprecedented “surveillance”
48-page report citing Ars Technica urges FTC, FCC investigate connected TV data harvesting. Gen AI, potentially racially discrimniatory practices head concerns.

The surveillance economy is huge. It isn't really clear to me where all the money is coming from. It can't just be advertisers.Smart TV's, smart speakers, cell phones, they all invade our privacy. At this point I don't think there's any reasonable way to avoid it without giving up all these devices. We either accept it or live like hermits in the woods. It's really sad it's come to this, especially for people like me who love technology. I never thought it would be used against us like it is today.
When I talk to non-tech friends about using VPN's, adjusting privacy settings in Windows, staying off Facebook/Instagram, they think I'm nuts. That's how embedded data harvesting is in our lives.
It can't just be advertisers
When you added the word 'government' you brought politics into the conversation.Get where?
When you added the word 'government' you brought politics into the conversation.
The entire government can't be political. I did not take it to mean anything other than governmental agencies buying data on the open market.I wasn't meaning to. I can't think of any other entity besides advertisers that would be supporting or enabling a "surveillance economy." I was just answering the question.
Well, if people demanded it and made it a broad priority a "Digital Bill of Rights" is within the realm of possibility.Smart TV's, smart speakers, cell phones, they all invade our privacy. At this point I don't think there's any reasonable way to avoid it without giving up all these devices.
I think you are nuts thinking you are secure via a VPN. Also, do you have all those Facebook / Google Analytics trackers at most websites turned off?When I talk to non-tech friends about using VPN's, adjusting privacy settings in Windows, staying off Facebook/Instagram, they think I'm nuts. That's how embedded data harvesting is in our lives.
Well, if people demanded it and made it a broad priority a "Digital Bill of Rights" is within the realm of possibility
You just have to worry about Russian military planes flying incredibly close to U.S. air space on a weekly basis.Moving to Alaska and living off the grid is looking more and more appealing.
And bears (the non-human kind). And moose for that matter.You just have to worry about Russian military planes flying incredibly close to U.S. air space on a weekly basis.![]()