Samsung and Vizio smart TVs keep sending ACR-like traffic after opt-out; VIDAA exposed 57M recognition results
A study titled "Watching the Watchers: Privacy Analysis of US Smart TV Automatic Content Recognition" found that Samsung (Tizen) and Vizio (SmartCast) televisions kept sending traffic consistent with automatic content recognition (ACR) after researchers disabled the feature. The researchers ran 5,943 automated experiments on 12 TVs from 1…