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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by zik on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:58PM (#18603961)
Samsung internet connected TVs monitor what's on your screen and send super low res snapshots up to their servers - just enough that they can automatically work out what you're watching. Your IP can then be cross-correlated with other web companies like google so they can keep a record against your full identity of everything you watch. So even their TVs aren't safe if you care about privacy.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/02/samsung-lg-...

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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by zimpenfish on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:06PM (#18604020)
That's going to be interesting if they still do that in a post-GDPR world without positive informed consent.
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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by crashingpancake on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @10:05AM (#18608784)
Every single TV manufacturer does that. In US, Vizio the largest HDTV brand openly sells this as a service to media agencies. Samsung and Japanese TV manufacturer data is much harder to access to and Japanese brands are generally scrupulous over permissions. No one matches any personally identifying info with this viewership data... It's all anonymized.

Source: work in ad-tech and have personally worked with this kind of data from different firms.

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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by brokenmachine on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @06:29AM (#18607360)
Far out, that's the scariest thing I've read today.

These companies are putting spy bugs in citizens homes.

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