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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Samsung is also trying to make its ACR data more valuable for ad targeting, including through a deal signed in December with analytics firm Experian.

This should add to their profits.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Experian, the ~~social credit score~~ credit rating company? Fuuuuuck

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Experian has a program where you connect your bank account and they monitor transactions for things that could improve your credit by a couple points. I'm sure they're not also harvesting the rest of your data to use in their analytics, right?

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