Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes

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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.

arstechnica.com

 

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Moving to Alaska and living off the grid is looking more and more appealing.

 

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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.

 

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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.

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.

 

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It can't just be advertisers

Likely advertisers + government.

 

[telstar_1]

Aaaannd we had to get there.

 

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Aaaannd we had to get there.

Get where?

 

[Bobby]

Get where?

When you added the word 'government' you brought politics into the conversation.

 

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When you added the word 'government' you brought politics into the conversation.

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.

 

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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.

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.

 

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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.

Well, if people demanded it and made it a broad priority a "Digital Bill of Rights" is within the realm of possibility.

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.

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?

 

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Well, if people demanded it and made it a broad priority a "Digital Bill of Rights" is within the realm of possibility

Most people don't even realize their privacy is at risk.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Moving to Alaska and living off the grid is looking more and more appealing.

You just have to worry about Russian military planes flying incredibly close to U.S. air space on a weekly basis.

 

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You just have to worry about Russian military planes flying incredibly close to U.S. air space on a weekly basis.

And bears (the non-human kind). And moose for that matter.