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LG's smart TV privacy woes continue as Portugal's Citizen Voice asks the court to investigate. Are smart TVs too keen to gather data?

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[โ€“] unphazed@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Corporation: Do evil shit to achieve optimum profit, usually in 100s of millions of extra profit. Laws: Yeah this'll cost you 10 million.

I'm sure there's a name for this but I'm calling it Litigation Offset Loss. So long as the punitive cost is outweighed by the profit gained there is no incentive to act ethically. The only thing worse is corporate self regulation.

[โ€“] Garfunkel@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

I'm just saying, americans could solve a lot of problems with a guillotine...

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