Your Smart TV is spying on you. It’s taking snapshots of everything you watch — sometimes hundreds per second — and quietly sending that data to third parties.
In this video, we reveal what’s really happening behind the glass:
How smart TVs track your behavior
How that data is used to profile and manipulate you
And how you can protect yourself.
Surveillance has crept into our living rooms. It’s time to draw the line.
00:00 TV Is No Longer a Private Activity
00:39 Understanding Smart TVs
05:30 How Data Is Weaponized
08:34 Opaque By Design
13:13 What Can We Do
16:09 Grants from Ludlow
16:33 In Summary
We never should’ve let faceless companies and governments into our living rooms and bedrooms. The damage is deep, but it’s not irreversible. It starts with awareness. It’s time to blow the lid off the surveillance quietly woven into our lives, and start taking back control.
Special thanks to Yash Vekaria and his team for their awesome research. Read their whitepaper here:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3646547.3689013
Brought to you by NBTV team members: Lee Rennie, Cube Boy, Derek Porter, Will Sandoval and Naomi Brockwell.
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Here are a bunch of products I like and use. Using these links helps support the channel and future videos!
Recommended Books:
Beginner’s Introduction To Privacy – Naomi Brockwell
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Permanent Record – Edward Snowden
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What has the government done to our money – Rothbard
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Extreme Privacy – Michael Bazzel
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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State – Glenn Greenwald
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Some of my favorite products to help protect your privacy!
Brave browser: https://brave.com/nao076
Faraday bag (signal stopping, to protect your fob, credit card, computer, and phone)
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Data Blocker (if you’re charging your phone in an unknown port, use this so that no data is transferred)
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Camera tape (electrical tape is the best tape for covering phone and computer cameras)
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USB-C to ethernet adapter:
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Privacy Screens (use your phone and computer in public? Keep your information safe!)
Computer: (Search for the size right for your computer)
MacBook Air 13″ https://amzn.to/3VQvpZ7
HP/Dell/Acer/Asus/Lenovo 15.6″ https://amzn.to/3KK1Oda
Lenovo Thinkpad/HP Elitebook/Dell 14″ https://amzn.to/4enT2zq
Phone: (Search for the size for your phone, decide whether you want glass or plastic!)
Galaxy s24 – https://amzn.to/3VGgb8H
iPhone 15 – https://amzn.to/45vCd1h
Pixel 8 – https://amzn.to/3KFDuJF
