Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook

Re:Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Face... by Cthulhu_ on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:20AM (#21014353)

I'm fairly sure there's a line of TVs for "industrial" purposes (e.g. the ones you see in airports) that are both hardened and lack any privacy invasive features - however, they come at a premium.

Which is always the issue - people want a 65" TV, but they don't want to spend $6000 on it. But if they can have it for $2000 (for example) they're all over it, glossing over the mostly unobtrusive privacy invasion that goes with it.

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Re:Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Face... by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 19, 2019 @08:06AM (#21015385)

And if there's a vendor that can sell that same TV without the privacy invasion for $4000, it can't even compete. This way, honest players are priced out of the market. This pattern is so predictable that I maintain advertising needs to be aggressively curtailed.

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