Your Smart TV is SECRETLY Recording Everything You Do (And Selling It)

Addie LaMarr
Aug 15, 2025

How to Stop Your Smart TV From Spying on You (and Why It’s Worse Than You Think)
Your TV isn’t just watching what you watch—it’s logging your pauses, your laughs, and soon- even the tiny shifts in your pupils… and selling it all for a very low cost.
This video uncovers how that data leaves your living room, follows you to your phone, your laptop, and even into stores you visit—and what you can do tonight to shut it down.

I’ve spent 15 years in cybersecurity tearing apart the “black box” of everyday tech, and what I found in modern smart TVs is one of the most surprising systems I’ve ever seen.
In this video, I’ll break down the tech, the business model, and the step-by-step countermeasures so you can kick Big Data out of your living room for good.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this video:
• The truth about Automated Content Recognition (ACR) and how it fingerprints everything you watch
• How your TV follows you to your phone with cross-device tracking and ultrasonic beacons
• The “fake off” modes that let TVs keep listening when the screen is dark
• How emotion-tracking and gaze analysis are being tested on unsuspecting viewers
• Which TV brands are the worst offenders—and which are safer bets
• The 6-step playbook to shut down tracking pipelines and take back your privacy

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Your turn: What’s the creepiest thing you’ve ever noticed a smart device doing in your home? Drop your story in the comments—your experience might wake someone else up.

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