Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently filed a lawsuit against the 5 largest TV brands in the United States over their use of “Automatic Content Recognition”
“If you are showing family photos or family homemade movies on your smart tv, automatic content recognition is taking a screen capture twice a second, every half a second. It takes a screenshot, sends that back to the mothership, and that’s being used because we have to know what you’re watching, educational content, religious content, whatever it is you’re watching, somebody wants to know. And the rationale for this, well, we can better target ads”
‘ACR takes a screenshot of whatever is on your TV screen (including cable TV shows, streaming services, Xbox, PlayStation, Roku, Apple TV, home movies and photos streamed from your phone or laptop, etc.) and sends those screen captures back to the manufacturer so they can keep track of EVERYTHING you watch on “your” TV’