Popular smart TV models made by Samsung and LG can take multiple snapshots per second of the content you’re watching, even when they’re being used as an external display for a laptop or video game console.
Smart TV makers use these frequent screenshots and voice recordings in their automated content recognition systems to track viewing habits and target specific ads. But researchers found that some of the world’s most popular smart TV brands are doing this tracking. Samsung TVs can take screenshots every 500 milliseconds, LG…