Your Smart TV Is Watching Back: How ACR Tracks Everything on Screen and Why Opting Out Is So Hard
Your connected television may be quietly cataloguing everything that appears on its screen — not just the streaming apps you open, but also over-the-air broadcasts and whatever arrives through the HDMI port from a console or set-top box. The technology behind this is Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), and a review of manufacturer documentation reveals a … Read more