I agree that it is old news. Orwell's "1984" with its scary concepts of mass control and indoctrination is even older.
Whenever I read about those TVs I have to think about how dehumanizing the outcome of the dystopian story was, and how we slowly - but decisively - move into the accepting such privacy and rights intrusions.
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This is really old news, and actually, the text in the link was pretty much inspired by the one from Huffington Post from 2015 - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/09/your-samsung-tv-is-...
I agree that it is old news. Orwell's "1984" with its scary concepts of mass control and indoctrination is even older. Whenever I read about those TVs I have to think about how dehumanizing the outcome of the dystopian story was, and how we slowly - but decisively - move into the accepting such privacy and rights intrusions.