The fact our TVs are gathering our information isn’t new, but what and how they’re tracking — and if we can stop it — is hard to figure out. Researchers at Northeastern University monitored 12 TVs from 10 manufacturers to test whether opting out of automatic content recognition (ACR) actually works. While opting out was effective for most TVs — including LG, Amazon Fire TV, a Sony Bravia running Google TV, and those with Vidaa OS (which can be found on TVs from Hisense, Toshiba,…
Maybe your TV won’t stop spying on you
