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   Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 04:23:42 JST Dan Gillmor

   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"

   https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449198-smart-tvs-take-snapshots-of-what-you-watch-multiple-times-per-second/

   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.

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     aggressively biphasic sleeper (itsmeholland@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 05:07:32 JST aggressively biphasic sleeper

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     • .vad//hakara🧭

     @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. 😬

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 05:07:32 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • aggressively biphasic sleeper
     • .vad//hakara🧭

     @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/

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     .vad//hakara🧭 (vadhakara@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 05:07:33 JST .vad//hakara🧭

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

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 05:18:56 JST mark

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     @dangillmor and my Samsung performs worse every day. The nonsense that they push through has ruined the TV. It's no longer a display device, it's obviously up to some shit