This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
If it's illegal why isn't the state executive branch making arrests? Why isn't the state legislative banning the sale of these devices?
If I was selling an illegal product, they wouldn't be dragging my happy ass through court to get relief from my actions.
Because corporations are only people when it comes to good things. If it's a bad thing, corporate veil protects the people doing the crimes because they have (what no one who puts any thought to it would believe is) plausible deniability because they never told people to do illegal things, they just said they wanted something done and let their underlings figure it out.
yeah, but you wouldn't be able to settle for a lucrative deal that the Texan elite can personally benefit from. that's the difference.
Rare Ken Paxton win.
Something something about a broken clock being right twice a day.
Ken Paxton saying or doing something reasonable and/or beneficial is more like finding a random page torn out from a page-a-day calendar and having it be the right day and date but from a different year
Mass surveillance system? Yes, of course. That's the whole point. Tracking and profiling you to charge more for ads.
Lmao these smart TVs are basically the screens in the book 1984, in every house.
Do YouTube next. Do websites next.
Websites have already been „done“ by the GDPR and the companies just implemented the measures with a clear malicious intent, bullying their users into compliance and blaming the horrible cookie banners they implemented on the EU.
Yeah, I was responsible for a moderately high-volume site, and getting it GDPR compliant wasn't all that much effort. That's because we're not scumbags abusing our users' personal information.
And yeah, the cookie-banners bullshit isn't required, it was just passive aggression by sites butthurt that they couldn't intrusively track their users so easily anymore.
Well I mean, it was implemented about as well as California Prop 65, which had the effect of printing "This product contains chemicals known in the state of California to cause cancer" on literally everything ever made.
