Comment on ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition

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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

No. The likely outcome is this. I’m going to use fake numbers for the sake of demonstrating a concept.

Samsung spies on you. From the data, they can harvest $500 million dollars throughout Texas tv watchers sending info back to South Korea.

Texas says “Hey! Whoa! You can’t do that! You better stop or we’ll fine you $20,000 dollars!”

Samsung says “Ok”, and keeps doing it. Pays the fine, and takes it to court. They lose the case, but cost Texas $15,000 of court costs just to win. Then they keep doing it.

Now Texas thinks twice about charging the fee, because last time they only got $5,000 after defending themselves in court.

Meanwhile Samsung just views it as the cost of doing business. And carries on.

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