Terrible fucking idea. There is no goddamn way I'm buying a sony TV if it has an internet-wired RFID reader in it. NOBODY pays attention or warns about how much these things gut personal privacy.
It won't just read your damn credit cards, it will read everything in proximity. Having this wired to the internet and so many things with unremovable RFIDs in them means that advertising can be served based on everything in RFID proximity to the TV. ETC.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Terrible fucking idea. There is no goddamn way I'm buying a sony TV if it has an internet-wired RFID reader in it. NOBODY pays attention or warns about how much these things gut personal privacy.
It won't just read your damn credit cards, it will read everything in proximity. Having this wired to the internet and so many things with unremovable RFIDs in them means that advertising can be served based on everything in RFID proximity to the TV. ETC.