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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] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Well, so, about that.

A lot of TV's will form mesh nets with same brand-or even across brands³-, until they find one that is connected. I've even heard reports of one with a sim card¹.

¹in a 'smoke filled room'² ²okay it was a van. A smoke filled van. And she was on some other stuff too.

³OS based i think? So instead of Sony's seeking Sony's or samsungs seeking samsungs, its android tvs or roku's or whatever forming meshes. Don't quote me on that though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Where can I read about these mesh networks?

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

It's the same thing apple's Find My runs on. Devices bounce off each other like the fires of gondor

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Think there was an article in... I think wired a couple years back.