Your television is debuting the latest, most captivating program: You. In a report titled “How TV Watches Us: Commercial Surveillance in the Streaming Era,” the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) spotlighted a massive data-driven surveillance apparatus that ensnares the public through modern television sets.
In cooperation with data brokers, streaming video programming networks, Connected Television (CTV) device companies, and smart TV manufacturers are creating detailed digital dossiers about viewers, based on a person’s identity information, viewing choices, purchasing patterns, and thousands of online and offline behaviors.
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Source: Malwarebytes Labs
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