Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by gytrash@feddit.uk to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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"The TV business isn't just about selling TVs anymore. Companies are increasingly seeing viewers, not TV sets, as their most lucrative asset..."

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[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago

Very much unrelated but I recently read samsung's smart monitor/tv privacy policy and it says they can record EVERYTHING you do on it and devices connected to it including programs or games you use and you can't opt out of this short of foregoing smart features (except screen casting) altogether. There's also an option (that doesn't look optional in their ui) that lets them automatically process that data.

I'd heard those things were ridiculous but didn't imagine this much