Can we stop calling these things smart. What is smart about devices sharing user data with companies?
They're smart enough to be rebellious...
Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition
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If you're getting $26 from the ad agencies, then it's $-1 on your BOM. Done deal.
But is individual data worth that much? I mean isn’t “my” Facebook data is worth less than $0.20US/year?
Facebook had 20 USD per active user revenue in 2018. So it is somehow worth more than that.
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#393The solution is simple. Stop watching TV and read lol
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#394I'm getting ready to go full Battlestar Galactica in all of my appliances. It's now difficult to find high end washers and ovens without these features. At least right now we can choose not to connect the devices, but what happens if iot LTE connections get cheap enough that the choice is removed altogether, like with Tesla and other high end modern cars? I don't think I'm just being a Luddite. This really seems like…
maybe HOAs can establish community rules and set up some sort of neighborhood firewall that blocks IOT data exfiltration
An HOA is the last sort of organization I'd trust to run a firewall for me. Those orgs are magnets for petty tyrants, bored stay-at-home control freaks who want to flex on the neighborhood. How many would decide to turn the internet off after 8pm "for the children" or something equally inane?
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Well, I would be interested. Also, I don't like HDMI, and I don't need such a big TV set. For TV and VCR and some stuff like that, if it uses computer system (many kind of appliances should not need any kind of computer code), having the rights provided by GPL3, and also wired IMIDI (and perhaps also IMIDI-over-IR, with a switch to disable IR entirely). And, the software should be simpler and not so slow, not so much…
Would it be possible to build an adapter that could filter out Ethernet-over-HDMI?
There are basically zero consumer devices right now that actually support that functionality. It's not useful as a selling feature when TVs all have wifi now anyway.
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Displaying content on your television isn't something you do online. It's something you're doing at home. Samsung is spying and putting it online.
You don't own your Samsung TV. You lease it. It's therefore Samsung's screenshots, not your private ones.
The Samsung TV is a physical object that you purchase. It might be true that you don't own the software running on the TV, but you at least own the TV.
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Correction: if you want a regulatory law of any kind, you'll have to compromise a congressman to a greater extent than existing foreign and corporate interests have already compromised said congressman.
Maybe bring them to your island and secretly record them doing something illegal?
Then you'll just be suicided in a cell.
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#398I'm getting ready to go full Battlestar Galactica in all of my appliances. It's now difficult to find high end washers and ovens without these features. At least right now we can choose not to connect the devices, but what happens if iot LTE connections get cheap enough that the choice is removed altogether, like with Tesla and other high end modern cars? I don't think I'm just being a Luddite. This really seems like…
I already did, over a decade ago. I tell friends "No cloud services on this ship!". They've bought into it too, buying more CD's, records and dumb only TV's.
My current setup is an old 1080P Bang & Olufsen setup. Looks and sounds great. Similar with audio - B&O did airplay back in the 80's called master link. So each room in the house can play music from anywhere else.
The only things networked are actual computers and phones. That's more risk than I want to handle, no need to add more. Similarly I've passed over smartwatches for good quality Swiss watches that'll still be worth something in 18 months time. I swear I'm not some character from a William Gibson novel.
I expect at some point old school offline stuff will make a comeback like Vinyl has. Society lags a good 10-20 years behind the frontrunners. Sometimes more.
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Slight correction; it was not John Tower (and I'm curious how you mistook the two), it was Robert Bork. He was nominated for the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan. His video rental history was obtained by Michael Dolan. His nomination was rejected by the Senate, but it wasn't necessarily over his video rental history because the videos he rented were entirely unremarkable. However, it brought up questions of privacy and…
Borks also the origin of the term “Borked” since he was candid in his answers about constitutional policy and this cost him nomination and is now why Supreme Court nominees are more opaque with what they say vs what they think.
I'm fairly certain the word existed and was in use before 1988. Do you have a reference for this incident causing the creation of that word?
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#400If you buy a smart TV, disable these features, disable network connectivity, and then plug in another 3rd party box you should be fine right?
Unlikely, because the third-party box probably uploads screenshots or does something equally noxious as well, if not today, then in the not-too-distant future.
I have an TV and I feel like Apple is doing a decent job of trying to prevent selling user data by any means.