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Your TV Is Spying On You (www.ludlowinstitute.org)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No it’s not! I had a goddamn Sony tv and it wouldn’t let me change certain settings unless I connected it to the internet! They try to force your hand!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Do you remember the model number? I would like to research this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

What about connecting to a mobile/theter and change password after you adjusted your settings? 🤷‍♂️