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WPN: Texas Judge Halts Samsung Smart TV Data Collection in Privacy Suit

January 7, 2026

“The roots of this controversy trace back over a decade. In 2015, The Guardian reported on claims by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) that Samsung’s voice-recording TVs breached privacy laws, prompting calls for a Federal Communications Commission investigation. Although that focused on audio, it set the stage for scrutiny of all data collection methods.”

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