
Your TV Is Spying On You and Taking Screenshots
About this episode
Your Smart TV is spying on you. It’s taking snapshots of everything you watch -- sometimes hundreds per second -- and quietly sending that data to third parties.
In this video, we reveal what’s really happening behind the glass:
How smart TVs track your behavior
How that data is used to profile and manipulate you
And how you can protect yourself.
Surveillance has crept into our living rooms. It’s time to draw the line.
00:00 TV Is No Longer a Private Activity
00:39 Understanding Smart TVs
05:30 How Data Is Weaponized
08:34 Opaque By Design
13:13 What Can We Do
16:09 Grants from Ludlow
16:33 In Summary
We never should’ve let faceless companies and governments into our living rooms and bedrooms. The damage is deep, but it’s not irreversible. It starts with awareness. It’s time to blow the lid off the surveillance quietly woven into our lives, and start taking back control.
Special thanks to Yash Vekaria and his team for their awesome research. Read their whitepaper here:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3646547.3689013
Brought to you by NBTV team members: Lee Rennie, Cube Boy, Derek Porter, Will Sandoval and Naomi Brockwell.
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