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Your TV Is Spying On You (www.ludlowinstitute.org)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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] -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can't activate the warranty without it. Then once it knows it can go online it will constantly harass you.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"You can’t activate the warranty without it" That's illegal in most of the world

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

We'll see how calm you are when your TV goes live on sky net and kills you in your sleep