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Re:I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge by DeathArrow on Monday May 30, 2022 @04:17AM (#31556665)
>I’m fairly sure, at least in Europe, there will be legislation that prevents this without explicit positive content from the consumer. I suspect GDPR already covers it in fact.

Judging by the new CSAM legislation being pushed by EU bureaucrats, your fridge won't report to its maker but to EU commission and maybe to your own government.

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Re:I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge by sofixa on Monday May 30, 2022 @07:10AM (#31557763)
The fridge couldn't contain CSAM ( unless people keeping kids in fridges becomes a massive problem somehow), so it's not really comparable.
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Re:I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge by pessimizer on Monday May 30, 2022 @10:53AM (#31559643)
Of course it could, it's a networked computer with storage. I'm guessing there's a 0% chance it's not running a webserver.
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Re:I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge by sofixa on Monday May 30, 2022 @11:34AM (#31560095)
Extremely limited embedded storage, so not really.
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Re:I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge by sofixa on Monday May 30, 2022 @11:33AM (#31560088)
But it is, at least on paper, to combat child sexual exploitation by preventively searching for any related content in communications. That's the stated goal, that's what it does. It has serious ramifications ( broken encryption is broken), can be abused for other things, etc. but that's the purpose.

So a fridge with very limited embedded storage doesn't really match.

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