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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"

newscientist.com/article/24491

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.

New Scientist · Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per secondBy Jeremy Hsu

@dangillmor Remember when we had laws against wiretapping? We should do that again but for modern technology.

✨easily traumatized nihilist✨

@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. 😬