Gregory's Server@simon I assume it's for chromecast capability, but it also almost certainly means network devices will be mapped & tracked too
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@simon honestly—not sure, but with this info you can get a rough idea of family numbers, smart home devices, toys, games, tv. if metrics are collected by any devices, then it’s a reasonably vivid picture of a lot of households Could be used for R&D, marketing, profiling, advertiser interest intent. None of which being illegal information to gather. As we know, plenty of TVs track what you watch/listen to, so doesn’t seem overly far fetched that more surveillance is in use for “metadata”  @simon @benschwarz I’ve had to go back into settings to allow it for a couple of apps, because it turned out that to do local dev, the browser had to be able to reach my web server (a physical server). Who knew! ;) |
@benschwarz but to what end? What does it mean for software to map and track my network devices? Why would anyone want to do that?