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Camera and mic aren't needed to glean ACR data. ACR is the mechanism that harvests your data, button pushes, what you're watching, how long, how often you change channels, shows, etc. This data is shared (sold) to the content providers (among others) to target you for advertising, products,etc.
Under the hood it's much more complex than that but that's the jist.
Coupled with a microphone and camera - it's beyond intrusive
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Running anything Microsoft with only a local account (yes, you can even do this with Win 11) is also helpful. Leaving your phone at home if you're going to rob a bank--a definate pro move. Never giving out your phone number except to people in your circle of trust and using a burner phone number for anything else, including resumes, using a PO Box for your mailing address providing a sort of air-gap for many public record items like broker licenses or pilot licenses. These are all positive steps.
You don't have to live like Ted Kazinsky and you also can put up many effective barriers to them getting much of your data. Or ... like I said, you can acquiesce, roll over on your back, and bare everything to the marketing machines and governments who have become surveillance sponges with the objective of separating you from your money or doing you harm in some other way. If that's your jam then have at it. As they say--you do you. There are still a handful of us left who get satisfaction out of each and every byte of data we manage to either keep out of their reach or at least create some large barrier or expense between them and our data. Even better, as I said, than giving them no data, is giving them bad data. I wear my foil hat with pride whilst you run naked down 5th Avenue.
As a network engineer I am all too familiar with how difficult it is to keep my data private. Unfortunately, being one who prefers to be able to function in society, I have to accept some compromise. That doesn't mean I'm going to roll over and be an easy target. Using VLANs for my IoT devices, having them isolated from each other, and even having a VLAN to nowhere that has no Internet access for my TVs and other devices that simply don't need to phone home is a step in the right direction. VPNs have their place (I have the ability to "move" my entire house to any place on the planet with a few clicks). Pi-hole and other methods for preventing devices from phoning home with collated data and blocking ads that only exist for the sole purpose of brainwashing the viewer (it's not only about the data you disclose--it's also about being choosy about what data you consume).
Running anything Microsoft with only a local account (yes, you can even do this with Win 11) is also helpful. Leaving your phone at home if you're going to rob a bank--a definate pro move. Never giving out your phone number except to people in your circle of trust and using a burner phone number for anything else, including resumes, using a PO Box for your mailing address providing a sort of air-gap for many public record items like broker licenses or pilot licenses. These are all positive steps.
You don't have to live like Ted Kazinsky and you also can put up many effective barriers to them getting much of your data. Or ... like I said, you can acquiesce, roll over on your back, and bare everything to the marketing machines and governments who have become surveillance sponges with the objective of separating you from your money or doing you harm in some other way. If that's your jam then have at it. As they say--you do you. There are still a handful of us left who get satisfaction out of each and every byte of data we manage to either keep out of their reach or at least create some large barrier or expense between them and our data. Even better, as I said, than giving them no data, is giving them bad data. I wear my foil hat with pride whilst you run naked down 5th Avenue.
But yeah, even our government whom can't collect some data, can buy that data from third party. So we just made it more expensive for our government (and extension us tax payers) to collect the same data. Now they rely on a third party and hopefully, they didn't doctor the data that leads to someone being falsely convicted.
That said, for January 6th, that's the kind of use that is warranted and proper. It should be done, when people are being violent and trying to overthrow our government.
But yeah, even our government whom can't collect some data, can buy that data from third party. So we just made it more expensive for our government (and extension us tax payers) to collect the same data. Now they rely on a third party and hopefully, they didn't doctor the data that leads to someone being falsely convicted.
That said, for January 6th, that's the kind of use that is warranted and proper. It should be done, when people are being violent and trying to overthrow our government.
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