Your TV is a spy
The Current powered by Kim Komando
WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc
4.6 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 1:05.3 | All right, Andrew, we've talked about this here on the show, how your TV maker is now collecting all your data. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.4 | I found this number, $46 billion this year. |
| 1:16.5 | Okay, that's how much the smart TV ad and data revenue is headed towards. |
| 1:21.2 | Wow. |
| 1:21.8 | It's a lot of money. |
| 1:23.1 | Every single viewer generates about $20 a year in data alone. |
| 1:26.7 | And the hardware margins on TVs are less than 1%. |
| 1:29.9 | So that's it? |
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