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Your TV Watches What You Watch. (And Reports You)

Loyal Moses · 6 months ago

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Your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen right now — every 15 seconds on some models — and sending them to the manufacturer. It's called ACR (Automatic Content Recognition), it's on by default, and it tracks everything on your screen including your PlayStation, laptop, and cable box through HDMI. The data gets sold to brokers who build a…

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Loyal Moses, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.