Talk about a grotesque invasion of privacy:
"Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console"
How can this possibly be legal?
Here's why: Congress isn't just indifferent to your privacy. It is actively complicit with big corporations -- and law enforcement -- in embedding surveillance into everything we do.
@dangillmor Remember when we had laws against wiretapping? We should do that again but for modern technology.
@vadhakara @dangillmor i believe this is one of the many reasons why who is in charge of the FCC matters so much, & why the supreme Court overturning the Chevron precedent is so scary, bc protections for Internet use have depended largely on whether they are considered a telecommunications technology or not. Which has varied depending on who was having the FCC, but could be settled forever in one direction or another soon if a court finds it relevant to clarify ambiguous legislature about it.
@itsmeholland @vadhakara @dangillmor AT&T and T-Mobile already are exploiting it for example: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/24/t-mobile-leans-on-recent-supreme-court-chevron-ruling-to-insist-the-fcc-cant-require-all-phones-be-unlocked/