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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] 40 points 2 months ago (2 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?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My jaw dropped when I saw that. Not sure how many people are aware if it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That deserves to be its own headline. Something like "consumer electronics companies now conspiring with credit rating companies to surveil the public even more invasively."