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‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition (www.techradar.com)
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a suit on Monday against Samsung, Sony, LG, TCL, and Hisense, claiming in a press release that they "have been unlawfully collecting personal data through Automated Content Recognition ("ACR”) technology."

Paxton goes on to label ACR as "an uninvited, invisible digital invader," and in one of the five separately filed suits, he calls Samsung TVs "a mass surveillance system."

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Manipulating stocks and extorting companies?

This is a shakedown nothing more. Same as the Tylenol causes autism things last month.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    How is this equivalent? Unless ACR is not actually violating anything and truly harmless, I don’t think this is equivalent at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Because this is a shakedown, its has NOTHING to do with actually stopping the ACR privacy invasion. At no point will Texas actually do anything to stop the issue. They simple telling those companies to pay them off.

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