I read a report about how much data a smart TV collects in a year

It was from a study by a university in California. They found one brand of smart TV sent over 70 million data points to its company in just 12 months. That includes what you watch, when you pause, and even guesses about who is in the room. I found it online while looking up privacy stuff. It made me wonder who really owns all that info about my living room. Has anyone else seen numbers that high for other devices?

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vera1951mo ago

Remember when those robot vacuums got caught taking pictures inside people's houses? It feels like that same creepy energy. My cousin had one and it kept getting stuck in the same spot, so the company sent her a heat map of her whole floor plan to "help". She didn't ask for that, they just had it. Makes you wonder what else these normal things in your house are quietly figuring out.

laura_chen411mo ago

That report is crazy... my smart speaker feels the same way. It once suggested a playlist based on a private conversation I had near it. Makes you want to just unplug everything sometimes. The amount of stuff they must know is scary.

caseythompson1mo ago

That report lines up with what @laura_chen41 said about her smart speaker. It feels like every device now is built to listen and collect, not just to work. My new car even asks to connect and share my driving data. The pattern is they sell us a helpful gadget but the real product is our own habits and information. We pay full price for the thing and then give them a free feed of our private lives forever.