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‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition (www.techradar.com)
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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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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Do YouTube next. Do websites next.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 0 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Websites have already been „done“ by the GDPR and the companies just implemented the measures with a clear malicious intent, bullying their users into compliance and blaming the horrible cookie banners they implemented on the EU.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, I was responsible for a moderately high-volume site, and getting it GDPR compliant wasn't all that much effort. That's because we're not scumbags abusing our users' personal information.

And yeah, the cookie-banners bullshit isn't required, it was just passive aggression by sites butthurt that they couldn't intrusively track their users so easily anymore.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago

Well I mean, it was implemented about as well as California Prop 65, which had the effect of printing "This product contains chemicals known in the state of California to cause cancer" on literally everything ever made.