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Every major smart TV sold in the last five years includes a technology called Automatic Content Recognition. It runs continuously in the background, captures screenshots of whatever is on your screen every few seconds, and sends that data to a server.
It doesn't matter whether you're watching a streaming service, cable, a DVD, or a game console via HDMI. If the image is on the screen, the TV is capturing it. Here's exactly how the data pipeline works — and who ends up with your viewing history...
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