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Isn't there some way these TVs are violating the Video Privacy Protection Act? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act https://en.wikipedia.

• buckminster 7y ago
  > In 2015, a federal appeals court in Atlanta found that those protections do not reach the users of a free Android app, even when the app assigns each user a unique identification number and shares user behavior with a third-party data analytics company. So the TV company would probably argue that it's not a violation if they don't know your real identity. Even though they share the data with an analytics company that does. But the only way to really answer the question is to litigate.
  • Mathnerd314 7y ago
    The main issue in the 2015 case was that the app was free and therefore the users weren't "subscribers" by the court's narrow interpretation. See the discussion near 103: https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/04/the-video-privacy-protection-act-as-a-model-intellectual-privacy-statute/ https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/04/the-video-privacy-prote... They mention a later 2016 decision where free mobile app users were considered subscribers. Typically circuit splits end up in the Supreme Court sooner or later. So if it does come up it'll be some pretty expensive litigation.