According to complaints filed this Monday in Texas state courts, the TV makers can allegedly use ACR technology to capture screenshots of television displays every 500 milliseconds, monitor the users’ viewing activity in real time, and send this information back to the companies’ servers without the users’ knowledge or consent.
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Meanwhile, also in Texas, the police will trawl cameras nationwide to track you if you get an abortion. I guess it’s OK as long as it’s their surveillance network.
Lol, it’s like this with everything.
USA is tracking every single movement in your house, and throws a fit when China collects some meta data.
They just act like the survelliance is bad by blaming a foregin state, then doing something way worse.