Samsung TVs: Difference between revisions

Samsung, along with a number of other smart TV manufacturers, were sued by Texas Attorney General in December 2025 for failing to disclose the data collection capabilities of [[wikipedia:Automatic_content_recognition|ACR (Automatic Content Recognition)]] in their products.<ref name="petition-samsung">{{Cite web |date=December 15, 2025 |title=State of Texas v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., Original Petition |url=https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Samsung%20TV%20Petition%20Filed.pdf |access-date=January 21, 2026 |publisher=Office of the Texas Attorney General |format=PDF |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260206163119/https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Samsung%20TV%20Petition%20Filed.pdf |archive-date=6 Feb 2026}}</ref> Under the lawsuits, it is alleged that Samsung utilized ACR technology to determine what the the viewer is watching and sell the data to advertisers without consent. Anecdotal evidence lends credence to these claims in the form of abnormal amounts of telemetry data being uploaded to Samsung's servers by their smart TVs.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/1kpulqw/samsung_smart_tvs_privacy_nightmare_massive/ ([https://web.archive.org/web/20260224111819/https://old.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/1kpulqw/samsung_smart_tvs_privacy_nightmare_massive/ Archived])</ref>