{"id":28531,"date":"2014-11-04T07:21:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T12:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28531"},"modified":"2014-11-04T07:24:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T12:24:58","slug":"the-chilling-future-of-tv-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/the-chilling-future-of-tv-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"The chilling future of TV ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think today’s ads on TV are irritating? You ain’t seen nothing yet<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I’ve discussed in the past how many people mistake privacy as some sort of absolute “thing” rather than a spectrum of trade-offs. Leaving your home to go to the store involves giving up a small amount of privacy, but it’s a trade-off most people feel is worth it (not so much for some uber-celebrities, and then they choose other options). Sharing information with a website is often seen as a reasonable trade-off for the services\/information that website provides. The real problem is often just that the true trade-offs aren’t clear. What you’re giving up and what you’re getting back aren’t always done transparently, and that’s where people feel their privacy is being violated. When they make the decision consciously and the trade-off seems worth it, almost no one feels that their privacy is violated. Yet, when they don’t fully understand, or when the deal they made is unilaterally changed, that’s when the privacy is violated, because the deal someone thought they were striking is not what actually happened.<\/p>\n

And, unfortunately, it often seems like people are increasingly being pressured into deals they don’t fully understand and don’t have full control over. Michael Price, over at the Brennan Center for Justice, took the time to actually read through the “privacy policy” on his new “smart” TV and it’s terrified him<\/a>. Just the fact that a TV even has a privacy policy seems oddly terrifying, but it makes sense, given that at least some information goes outbound as part of the “smarts.” But how much? Potentially a lot more than people would expect:<\/p>\n