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by virtue3 2164 days ago
I worked for a company that used ACR to put interactive ads on your TV when the ad that it went with came on.

I pressed the meta data company manager we were working with about how they could make such accurate predictions about who was viewing based off just zip code and the content and he replied with "you would be amazed at what people will tell you about themselves for 5$ off netflix".

My productivity dropped and I had a hard time coming into work after that. (This was around the Snowden era).

LG got busted shortly after for not actually stopping the screen grabbing once a second and uploading it to a server even if you turned the option off in the UK. Not surprised.