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Sony – Google TV With Guilt Options

Sony’s picture processing remains the reference in the industry, and its Google TV sets at least expose honest toggles for viewing-data collection and personalized advertising in the settings menu.

It is still an ad-funded smart TV platform underneath, and privacy researchers have documented what Automatic Content Recognition collects on sets like these. Turn the toggles off on day one.

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