The researchers have discovered that automatic content recognition (ACR) tracking is active most of the time, even when TVs are used as “dumb” HDMI devices. In other words, the TV manufacturers are monitoring your private moments as well. There’s apparently no monitoring of streaming content in the UK, but there is in the US.
The only good news is that these TVs can seemingly be configured to disable ACR, provided the owners know this activity is taking place and are able to find the right settings. (I recently looked at the configuration of our TVs again, and understanding the various settings was far from easy.)
Another thing, just like the LG TV screensaver ads from the other thread, that would be a felony if a natural person did it.
Why are we tolerating this criminal behavior by corporations?
What if I just never connected it to the internet?
If it is a Samsung tv, they have been automatically connecting to any open wifi, maybe your neighbor has one. And there goes the data.
Avoid Samsung.
Ha, the nearest house to mine is a quarter mile away, good luck Samsung.
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Does it apply to Samsung PC monitors as well? Any way to check?
You have wifi / ethernet in your PC monitor?
Samsung in particular has “smart” monitors, so for some of them the answer is unironically yes
Where is the info about this?
Do not connect this device to the internet, no matter how much it begs.
Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) [42] is widely used for second-party tracking in smart TVs. As shown in Figure 1, ACR periodically captures frames (and/or audio), builds a fingerprint of the content, and then shares it with an ACR server for matching it against a database of known content (e.g., movies, ads, live feed). When the fingerprint matches, ACR server can determine exactly what piece of content is being watched on the smart TV.
My TV is connected to my WiFi but I blocked its internet access via router and it only has the jellyfin app which of course runs through a local server on the same network☺
Thanks for sharing, turned it off on my tv and shared it
Is it possible to open the TV up and just break the wifi module?
Disgusting
