Re:Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Face...
by rocqua on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:57AM
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How would data in the video be used to direct the TV to phone home? As in, what field would be set?
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Re:Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Face...
by jodrellblank on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:06AM
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I guess it would be a watermark style change through all the video frames which affects the hashes - e.g. brightness or contrast or sharpness or some combination of that kind of thing - then seed that on torrent sites, and advertisers get to see which TVs watched the torrented film vs the official film.