Your smart TV takes a screenshot of your entire screen every 500 milliseconds.
that's twice per second while you watch.
The technology is called ACR. Automatic Content Recognition.
It doesn't just track Netflix. it tracks your cable box. your gaming console. your laptop plugged in via HDMI. everything that appears on that screen.
and it infers things from what you watch:
your race. your religion. your politics.
Those aren't my words, that's from the Texas Attorney General's lawsuit against Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense, and TCL filed last year.
Who buys this data:
advertisers. data brokers. content networks. and political campaigns that use your viewing habits to target voters.
Your TV is not just showing you content.
It is building a profile on you and selling it.
Texas sued five manufacturers. Samsung settled in February. The other four are still collecting.
If you're not in Texas, you're on your own.
Vizio got fined $2.2 million by the FTC in 2017 for doing this without consent.
They paid the fine.
They kept doing it, they just ask now.
The opt-out is buried in your settings under names like "Viewing Information Services", "Live Plus", or "Interactivity Services."
@sleepyAKs1@MyVofPie@shantanano@mymixtapez 🤣 It's not stupid to shed light on the contrast and inconsistencies. It's easier, and less of a grift to say that only 0.7% of the population have been caught.
@MyVofPie@shantanano@mymixtapez That doesn't mean that the other 99.3% are law abiding citizens, e.g., POTUS, a 37x felon, that is in fact, not in prison.
@IceSolst@Yetee_ op was valid with this take, I don't think people should be forced to hear foreigners try to tell them, about the country they live in.
Tech advancement is cool and all, except racism for it can be activated with a command, if it isn't already.
@MyVofPie@shantanano@mymixtapez Pussified take off I’m honest.
99.3% is overestimating, the difference from you and the dude in the video is that you haven’t been caught yet.
Everybody breaks laws, often unbeknownst.
@ChitownMike312@shantanano@mymixtapez 🤧 show me a man, I’ll show you the law he’s prone to breaking.
For instance, being a white law man doesn’t stop you all from getting drunk raping your daughter and beating your wives.
It doesn’t track.
@workingXclass@shantanano@mymixtapez 🤧 I’d give you 2 years tops, POs knit pick and have their own bylaws that are asinine, most whites men go back to prison after their first drug binge, typically a month after release.