this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
572 points (99.7% liked)

Technology

77769 readers
2684 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
572
‘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)
submitted 2 days ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
77 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Since this is Texas, I'm predicting the suit will be settled once they secure a contract that ensures they get copies of every collection in Texas, indexed by name, address, and if available, SSN in perpetuity.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And if they watch liberal or spanish-language programming.

[–] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

So basically everyone far enough South? Narrows down pretty easily once you can determine where Tejano radio stations are broadcast, no awkwardly invasive tech required at all, just good old classic detective work that only requires a modicum of critical thought!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

palintir sure wants this data.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They need to identify threats to Texas democracy: specifically anyone who turns off their TV during an episode of Walker: Texas Ranger.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

It still upsets me that Chucky turned out to be such a horrible shit strain of a human...

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

I mean, once they're a state-sanctioned invader, it's not longer illegal