Texas dragging Samsung into asking for express consent says a lot about how rotten TV surveillance got. A screen in your living room should not ship with data collection on by default and hide the off switch in six menus. Samsung earned this punch in the teeth.

But definitely keep doing it everywhere else.

What’s funny to me is instead of making a law all manufacturers would need to agree to, they “reached a deal with Samsung.” This is Texas power grid energy

Queue massive splash screen with a wall of text and an "accept" or "decline" button.

If you press "decline" no online services function.

Actually very rare Texas W

Oh we're sorry to have so many photos of you having sex. We won't tell you anymore.