Talk about a grotesque invasion of privacy:
"Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console"
How can this possibly be legal?
Here's why: Congress isn't just indifferent to your privacy. It is actively complicit with big corporations -- and law enforcement -- in embedding surveillance into everything we do.
@melroy @dangillmor
I'm amused by the one comment:
@ferricoxide @dangillmor @melroy
Better to buy a computer monitor, small form factor computer, and run Linux.
Replace the steaming services with piracy. If you want to watch broadcast TV, there are tuner cards you can buy (just research local DRM on digital TV broadcasts first).
This approach is more work to set up, but will save you money in the long term. You can replace individual components when they fail, not just landfill the whole TV. Less electronic waste.
@robloblaw @ferricoxide @dangillmor that is what I have. I connected my own htpc to my Samsung tv. And now these researchers are saying Samsung is taking screenshot every 500ms? Crazy!
There are no 55 inch monitors. Are there? Anyhow, screenshotting should be forbidden. It's a very privacy invasive method.
@melroy @robloblaw @dangillmor
There are no 55 inch monitors. Are there? Anyhow, screenshotting should be forbidden. It's a very privacy invasive method.That's basically the problem I was having, when I replaced my TV. I was buying a TV so that I'd actually be able to read the text portion of Zoom (et. al.) presentations. That meant needing a 65" OLED (since where I was sitting was 15' from the TV). While you could go to a specialty-shop and get a "kiosk" panel in that price range, they were from the same sellers (LG and Sony) and were running basically the same software (and would presumably have had the same spying capability). While I'd initially run my TV with no internet-connection – sending content to it from an external, HDMI-connected streaming-box – the picture-quality from that streaming-box never matched using the TV's native streaming options. So, gave in for the sake of better picture-quality (in particular, casting from my laptop to the streaming-box seemed to suffer much more than directly casting to the TV).
Dan Gillmor
Melroy van den Berg
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