Once maximum customer penetration from WiFi is reached (not all consumers will add TVs to the network), these companies will bake in cheap cellular transceivers and contract directly with wireless carriers without any ability to opt out. They probably won't be used for actual content - just low bandwidth spying and ads.
It's what the early kindles used (called "whispernet"). Soon a lot of products may bake little radios in to spy on us.
Consumer spy tech will start to resemble cold war techniques.
Once maximum customer penetration from WiFi is reached (not all consumers will add TVs to the network), these companies will bake in cheap cellular transceivers and contract directly with wireless carriers without any ability to opt out. They probably won't be used for actual content - just low bandwidth spying and ads.
It's what the early kindles used (called "whispernet"). Soon a lot of products may bake little radios in to spy on us.
Consumer spy tech will start to resemble cold war techniques.