Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed lawsuits against Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL Technology Group Corporation due to concerns their smart televisions are “secretly recording” users’ screen activities, including security cam footage and personal photos, the attorney general’s office said in a statement on Dec. 15.
The lawsuits, filed in five different Texas district courts, are about the use of automatic content recognition (ACR) technology in television sets.
“ACR in its simplest terms is an uninvited, invisible digital invader. This software can capture screenshots of a user’s television display every 500 milliseconds, monitor viewing activity in real time, and transmit that information back to the company without the user’s knowledge or consent,” the Texas attorney general’s office said….