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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a suit on Monday against Samsung, Sony, LG, TCL, and Hisense, claiming in a press release that they "have been unlawfully collecting personal data through Automated Content Recognition ("ACR”) technology."

Paxton goes on to label ACR as "an uninvited, invisible digital invader," and in one of the five separately filed suits, he calls Samsung TVs "a mass surveillance system."

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

If it's illegal why isn't the state executive branch making arrests? Why isn't the state legislative banning the sale of these devices?

If I was selling an illegal product, they wouldn't be dragging my happy ass through court to get relief from my actions.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Because corporations are only people when it comes to good things. If it's a bad thing, corporate veil protects the people doing the crimes because they have (what no one who puts any thought to it would believe is) plausible deniability because they never told people to do illegal things, they just said they wanted something done and let their underlings figure it out.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 2 points 16 hours ago

yeah, but you wouldn't be able to settle for a lucrative deal that the Texan elite can personally benefit from. that's the difference.