Attorney General Paxton Sues Five Major TV Companies, Including Some with Ties to the CCP, for Spying on Texans
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Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed suit against five major television companies for spying on Texans by secretly recording what consumers watch in their own homes.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51755511

Lawsuits

These companies have been unlawfully collecting personal data through Automated Content Recognition (“ACR”) technology. ACR in its simplest terms is an uninvited, invisible digital invader. This software can capture screenshots of a user’s television display every 500 milliseconds, monitor viewing activity in real time, and transmit that information back to the company without the user’s knowledge or consent. The companies then sell that consumer information to target ads across platforms for a profit. This technology puts users’ privacy and sensitive information, such as passwords, bank information, and other personal information at risk.

  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    I guess even a broken fascist clock is correct twice a day. I almost imagine the last career lawyer in Austin desperately trying to figure out how to cram culture war bullshit into an actual legitimate consumer issue (the secret ingredient is… xenophobia!)…

    …or somebody just told Kenny boy that the TV knows what porn he watched last night.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, it’s quite disappointing to read the suit and see that the main purpose behind is because they don’t like the fact that Chinese companies are collecting this data.

      As if it’s not a problem that US-based companies are doing it as well.