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‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition (www.techradar.com)
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a suit on Monday against Samsung, Sony, LG, TCL, and Hisense, claiming in a press release that they "have been unlawfully collecting personal data through Automated Content Recognition ("ACR”) technology."

Paxton goes on to label ACR as "an uninvited, invisible digital invader," and in one of the five separately filed suits, he calls Samsung TVs "a mass surveillance system."

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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'd actually prefer a dumb TV, we only use jellyfin anyway and that could be served by some raspy or similar. But they're extinct it seems. At least modern ones with 4 or 8k.

I hate this dumbing down of everything.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, I couldn't find one when my old LG from 2012 died. I did not activate wifi, added TV antenna. I already have Chromecast TV so I'm tracked enough,, thanks.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Really sad. We could even save a good portion of bucks due to all the shit noone needs. I can only imagine the crap pre-installed on Samsung TVs or other of those horrible bloat-brands.

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Best Buy Insignia series are dumb. At least the three 40 inch ones I have.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Thats good to know.. before finding out about that just now, I thought Scepter was the only brand left that made dumb TVs.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Non USA here, so no best buy. Got a google-tv now with basically nothing on it, heavy firewalling that device off and using only jellyfin. I hate it but...