Posted on 03/27/2015 6:50:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CHICAGO -- When you sit down to watch television, you probably don't imagine that your TV is also watching you. But Consumer Reports says that new models of some popular brands of smart TVs can record and share information about everything you watch.
It's likely you don't think you've invited a spy into your home when setting up a new TV. But this Samsung can record and share everything that's viewed, whether it's a broadcast or streaming from the Internet. And some smart TVs can even track what DVD you're watching.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...
Telescreen.
And that’s why when I go to bed I leave my tv on all night to C-Span.
Well if they suspect me of being a terrorist for watching American Idol, Hunting Bigfoot, ghost hunting shows, and The Tonight Show then so be it!
There, now they don’t have to spy. I just told’em...: )
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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That’s the freedom of being on FR.
You know you’re at the top of the list.
Nothing else you do really could bring on more surveillance.
Everybody is a suspect.....
In Soviet Union, TV WATCHES YOU!.................
You know I keep trying to get them to arrest me so I can have free room and board but they just won’t do it!...: )
So true. It’s liberating!
The wife and I still have stupid TVs.
you don’t understand.
todays ‘smart tv’ is recording everything and reporting it to a 3rd party. mostly audio to text but also the occasional picture when new facial recognition features are spotted. this helps establish relationships.
why?
for perfect recall, after the fact.
personally, i’m waiting for the day a judge grants a warrant to surveil a target and the prosecutor presses a button, enters the warrant id, and the entire life history of the target, and associates, is opened for inspection. all phone calls, dinners, shopping trips, even stop lights (cameras capturing who you’re with) will be checked for anything relevant ... or damning.
> personally, i’m waiting for the day a judge grants a warrant to surveil a target and the prosecutor presses a button, enters the warrant id, and the entire life history of the target, and associates, is opened for inspection. all phone calls, dinners, shopping trips, even stop lights (cameras capturing who you’re with) will be checked for anything relevant ... or damning.
They’re going to be very bored then. They still can’t top God’s surveillance system though...: )
You know I see a great class action suit brewing there. There is no opt out provision. They are toast for that alone.
where is Yakov Smirnoff when you need him?
In related news, VIZIO is going to shake up the 4k market with several entries this year.
80” $3,999
60” $1,499
50” $899
43” $599
[more sizes/prices at the link below]
http://www.cnet.com/news/vizio-2015-m-series-tv-prices-leaked-4k-for-less-pay/
I visited there last spring, LOL
I’m very happy with my old, dumb tv…….
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