- cross-posted to:
- privacy@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@programming.dev
According to complaints filed this Monday in Texas state courts, the TV makers can allegedly use ACR technology to capture screenshots of television displays every 500 milliseconds, monitor the users’ viewing activity in real time, and send this information back to the companies’ servers without the users’ knowledge or consent.
I mean I hate to say it, but at this point what are our options? Because our elected representatives refuse to do their jobs and these corps keep doing shady shit without consequences. I don’t mean to victim blame or anything, but with the current state of affairs, the onus is on the user to protect themselves.
This is under a post about elected representatives quite literally doing their jobs and suing corporations for doing this.
They might be couching it in language about it all being because of the “Chinese Communist Party surveilling Americans”, but they’re still trying to stop the practice.
It’s good when users can protect themselves. It’s easy to forget that these companies design their products specifically to make people set them up how the manufacturer wants, and not all of them will even work without being connected to the internet.
The average person is not technically literate whatsoever. You’re telling people to take personal responsibility for their privacy when they barely know how any technology works, and are surrounded by corporations who’s budgets go towards finding new ways to convince people to give up their privacy in the most effective ways.