Re:I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge
by AstralStorm on Monday May 30, 2022 @04:29AM
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Only in so far that they have to notify you what data is collected, for what imaginary purpose and who is managing it.
It's not personal information according to GDPR, unless combined with something else that is.
Say you are Samsung, you have a fridge with a camera on it that keeps track of what’s in the fridge “for the user”, so they can see inside their fridge even when not at home. Now add in some image recognition, automatically tracking exactly what’s in the fridge, how often it’s used, when it’s running low. Now you have some of the most valuable consumer data possible to sell to data brokers. That is defiantly covered by GDPR.