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Privacy in a classic sense has died the moment when we replaced paper with electronics.

• Koshkin 6y ago
  A picture on a TV screen didn’t use to spy on you...
  • Deflect 6y ago
    That's not exactly true. Assuming you didn't mean TVs completely without any internet connection whatsoever then you'll find that pretty much since that ability was added there have been attempts by the very manufacturers to do just that. Vizio isn't the only one but here's an example: https://www.tomsguide.com/amp/us/vizio-ftc-smart-tv-spying-privacy,news-24415.html https://www.tomsguide.com/amp/us/vizio-ftc-smart-tv-spying-p... How-to disable additional snooping: https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smart-tv-snooping-features/ https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar... Mind you this goes above what most consumers would consider acceptable and can be blatantly sold to advertisers. This is just what manufacturers have done but then there's just the attempts we know of by the CIA dump: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20206536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20206536
    • whynaut 6y ago
      > That's not exactly true. Assuming you didn't mean TVs completely without any internet connection whatsoever It’s way too early for this to be a reasonable assumption. The fact that they made that comment implies they are aware how widespread the is.