‘Unprecedented capabilities for surveillance and manipulation’: New report calls smart TVs and streaming services a ‘Trojan Horse’, and urges government action

Your smart TV is a ‘privacy nightmare’, a new report claims, suggesting that the streaming industry has created a sinister surveillance system that’s undermining our privacy and our consumer protection too. That’s according to a damning 48-page report by the Center For Digital Democracy (CDD), which has been passed to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).According to the report, the price of streaming isn’t just in its ever-increasing subscription fees. It’s in its ‘connected television media and marketing system with

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