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Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching (themarkup.org)

submitted 11 months ago by btp@kbin.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two every second. The data is then used for content recommendations and ad targeting, which is a huge business; advertisers spent an estimated $18.6 billion on smart TV ads in 2022, according to market research firm eMarketer.

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[-] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Would that make it basically anonymous?

Well, no. I think there is so much information in there, that the IP address is your least concern.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

What personally identification information is there? Sure, they can know everything is from the same user/household, but they can't know it's you by name, email, phone, address... That's what I mean by anonymous instead of private

[-] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I guess it is somewhat like paying in cash for your groceries: While anonymous, only you buy at this time of the day your favourite 3 food products, a cup of gluten-free instant ramen and a period product.

I would be concerned about this scenario:

Company X has your TV data (but doesn't know your name, etc)
Company Y, Z, ... know your name and have data on you.
They buy/share/whatever data and intersect it. Now they can probably connect the data they have on you.

this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023

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