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Facebook and Google have ad trackers on your streaming TV, studies find

Two independent studies look at the extent of the surveillance your TV is conducting on you. The study looked at Roku and Amazon set-top devices and Amazon Fire TV. Facebook, Amazon, Doubleclick, Facebook, and Doubleclick were among the top recipients of consumer data. A majority of channels sending data back through trackers sent it unencrypted in plaintext, the researchers found. The problem is not new, and business is proving slow to change since it has a financial incentive not to.”]

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/studies-google-netflix-and-others-are-watching-how-you-watch-your-tv/

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