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Comment by nrhrjrjrjtntbt

6 days ago

So potentially completely noncompliant if used in a business. E.g. it may have HIPAA, top secret etc.

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gruez  6 days ago

Sending 4k screenshots twice a second to a server would be tremendously bandwidth hungry. My guess is that it's all done locally.

  • treyd  6 days ago

    There's probably compact signatures extracted from the screenshots (color profiles, OCR, etc) which are then uploaded later in bulk. You don't need the full original image to be able to reliably uniquely identify the content if you have an index of it already.

    • floxy  6 days ago

      I'm wondering if there is some sort of steganographic watermark that broadcasters are including in media, to enable stuff like this. Probably would need to be robust in the presence of re-encoding, more compression, etc..

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kevin_thibedeau  6 days ago

It is a violation of the VPPA to collect this for streaming services and prerecorded media. Scheduled broadcast and cable TV aren't covered.

  • aidenn0  6 days ago

    I thought the 2013 amendment to the VPPA largely defanged it by allowing sharing with customer consent (which is probably one of the clauses in the million-word customer agreement nobody reads).

    • sailfast  6 days ago

      Pretty sure that’s why this lawsuit will have some legs - the deceptive way folks are opted in without really understanding what is happening.

      I’m shocked to be agreeing with Ken Paxton but he’s right on this one.

Spooky23  6 days ago

Yeah that’s why Webex is still in business. TVs are a great entry point to LANs.

MangoToupe  6 days ago

> HIPAA

Are health providers using PS5s in a context where information may be leaked to other providers? What kind of information would you expect to be displayed that might violate HIPAA?

  • nrhrjrjrjtntbt  6 days ago

    Patient xray for example, blown up on big tv

    • lurk2  5 days ago

      As other users mentioned, these screenshots are almost certainly not being transmitted as screenshots as the bandwidth costs would be enormous. The screenshots are converted to a hash on the user’s device before being sent to a server where the hash is compared to a database of known hashes. A user’s x-ray would just appear as a hash. This might still constitute a HIPAA violation, but I doubt it.

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