Elaine Burke
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Like, I mean, if you're using something like that and it's not a trusted third party that's plugged into it and you don't know things about the third party that's plugged into it, you won't have a privacy policy to lean on.
You won't have a data sharing agreement to lean on if you realise that there's any kind of scamming effects going on there.
And that is something that can be part of these systems and the profiling of them.
Now, I will say there's even smart TVs that are collecting a crazy amount of data on people just in their homes and taking screenshots of what they're watching on television.
So even corporations get involved in a crazy amount of data scraping.
Not of you, but of exactly what you're watching as you're watching it.
Like incredibly large amounts of data.
This was a study out of the UK just last year, I believe it was.
And it was Samsung TVs.
And they've only recently started to pull back these practices.
But like the amount of data scraping that goes on and even through legitimate services is crazy.
So this has mainly been brought to light by a BBC Panorama investigation which spoke to some women who had taken part in the show.
And the allegations include rape and non-consensual sexual contact and very, very serious charges.
And what's really, really damning here for Channel 4 and the production company behind Married at First Sight, CPL...
is that one of these women says that she actually raised concerns before the broadcast of the series and the series still went ahead as planned, as broadcast.
But now, after the Panorama investigation, all episodes of Maths UK, I believe, are taken down from Channel 4 and they've not said if they're going to continue with the show.
I know they're still airing.
There's other versions of the show in the US and Australia and I have seen that that's still airing across Channel 4, E4.
But they have...
in retrospect, now decided to pull things back.