Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.

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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.
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Experian, the social credit score credit rating company? Fuuuuuck

Experian has a program where you connect your bank account and they monitor transactions for things that could improve your credit by a couple points. I'm sure they're not also harvesting the rest of your data to use in their analytics, right?

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My jaw dropped when I saw that. Not sure how many people are aware if it.

That deserves to be its own headline. Something like "consumer electronics companies now conspiring with credit rating companies to surveil the public even more invasively."

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