Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 month agoYeah I remember when they rolled that out… it does not give me hope for the future of privacy.
Canada needs to really ramp up our privacy laws, I’m not crazy about GDPR specifically, but there needs to be something more substantial here.
tal@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I’m not really gung-ho about mandatory approaches either, like with licensing, but for an optional approach:
I have to be able to assess a device and its drawbacks with a reasonable amount of knowledge and time spent researching it.
There has to be at least one option on the market that does what I want.
For cars, at least, we’re really getting to the point where it’s not practical to get a new car without a cell data link that phones home.
And trying to stay atop of the privacy issues for all classes of device out there can’t be a full-time job, or it’s not reasonable to expect people to make informed purchasing decisions. Like, I should just be able to say that I don’t want a device that broadcasts any persistent unique IDs in plaintext over a radio, not have to research whether the current crop of smart automobile tire pressure valves has a protocol that exposes that information or not.
flappy@lemm.ee 1 month ago
My hot air station has a reeeealllly long cable.
So long. It’s the best. Unlike my…