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Your TV Is Spying On You (www.ludlowinstitute.org)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.

Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.

Welcome to the future of "entertainment."

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[–] nonentity 40 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I’ve never allowed my TV to have an active route to the internet since I bought it in 2019, it’s exclusively fed over HDMI by gaming consoles and an Apple TV.

The thing is, HDMI 1.4 added HEC, so what’s to prevent media players from serving as an Ethernet switch and providing an internet connection to TVs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

HEC feature enables IP-based applications over HDMI and provides a bidirectional Ethernet communication at 100 Mbit/s

I think the bandwidth is too slow for HD/4K Streams.

I am sure the 100 Mbit/s must also be theoretical maximum, i would be impressed if practical cables supports even half the orignal specs

[–] WhyJiffie 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

for streaming, yeah, for tracking its plenty

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

100Mbit/s is plenty for streaming even 8k

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