Re: Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

> WTF!! When did we land in the middle of a Black Mirror episode?

At least a decade ago! The first TVs with Automatic Content Recognition shipped in 2013[0]. There was also a brief panic in 2024 about air fryers spying on people[1].

And of course practically every website you visit is doing a full session recording with mouse movements and key presses captured.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_content_recognition

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/05/air-fryer...

fcarraldo, 2 days ago