Posted on 12/18/2023 8:20:02 AM PST by Red Badger
In Amerika, Television Watches You!
BIG data.
In George Orwell’s 1984, only Inner Party members could turn OFF the TV, and then only for a short time. For everyone else, it had to be on 24/7, with the Party propaganda blaring constantly......................Sounds a lot liek ABCNNBCBSPBS.................
That is a feature not a bug.
I got an LG with NO ANDROID/GOOGLE to avoid that. It has WebOS instead. Of course, I did NOT enable internet/WIFI access anyway. Base model, no camera, mic. And we use ClearPlay BluRay and Over the Air only. ClearPlay needs the WIFI, but doesn’t appear to do much with it.
Funny thing is in the Soviet Union, they had to put up a message telling people to turn off their TV after they closed down for the night.
The reason was that Soviet-built televisions had a propensity for catching on fire if left on too long.
why does anyone hook a spy tv to the internet ?
If I had such a tv I certainly would not, seriously you can get any number of dongles or a rasberry pi or even an old computer for almost nothing.
many Spy TVs also send audio and a complete log of everything you watch back to their home base.
You might say, well how can it know what am I watching?
Many of you have heard of Shazam it is an apple/android app that can listen to a few seconds of a song and tell you what it.
there is a similar app installed on some Spy tv sets that identifies tv shows, and especially porn.
If you use technology, there is no privacy.
This includes posting and answering on Free Republic.
Who hasn’t done some online window shopping and the next thing you know your popup ads and ads in your email are related to the exact items you were looking at?
Security cams aren’t the only time we are being watched.
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image; make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits.
You don’t even wanna know what your cell phone is sharing.
A few years ago, my wife and I were driving somewhere. Her cell phone was on but not being used. We were talking about porch furniture, and I happened to remark that Adirondack chairs were more comfortable than they looked. I hadn’t mentioned, or even thought of, Adirondack chairs in years, and have never owned one. Starting within the hour, and for the next month or two, we were getting all sorts of ads via phone and email for, you guessed it, Adirondack chairs.
This is why my own cell phone stays turned off in a drawer unless I specifically need to use it to make or receive calls. Probably doesn’t help much, since my wife keeps hers on all the time.
How to keep that from happening I wonder.
I’m sure it has happened to me as well and I just didn’t realize it.
In 1977 I got divorced from a 24/7/365 TV addict. Left all the TV sets with her, and haven’t owned one since. Guess I did the right thing.
Short of keeping the phone in a soundproofed Faraday cage of some sort, I don’t know. I don’t assume that the phone in the drawer isn’t listening as well, but so far I haven’t noticed anything as obvious as the Adirondack-chair business.
Big brother is real
Oh yeah. Since the 90s if not longer, and worse every year.
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