This kinda stuff should be opt-IN, not opt-OUT. Just think of how many people don’t even know this is happening, or that there even is an opt-out.
Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Actual paper here.
It is not sending full screenshots as anybody technical would already have guessed. It’s a few KB over an hour, so it’s content recognition hashes.
Opt out anyway. Their study shows the opt out option does indeed opt you out of it.
prototype_g2@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
This shouldn’t be opt-out. This is the digital equivalent of some fucking pervert showing up at your window and taking pictures of your TV and then letting a bunch of other perverts pay to find out what you were watching so they can use that info to manipulate you, multiplied by however many millions of TVs they’ve sold. Even if the punishment for that crime was just a single week in jail, the people responsible should be facing several hundred years behind bars when you add it all up.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It shouldn’t be opt in or out tbh. This shit should just be illegal.
The whole adverspying industry needs to be reined the fuck in and slowly turned to mulch.
The first step to that is letting us see what the advertiser has in our hidden “profiles” and let us modify and/or wipe them out.