Yesterday, we looked at a new hardware startup called Telly that’s giving away half a million of its new smart televisions for free. The catch is that the 55-inch smart television is fitted with a second display that sits underneath and displays ads while you watch your favorite shows.
The trade-off for a free television is agreeing to let this brand new startup collect vast amounts of data about you because the money ads make from you cover the costs of the television itself.
According to its privacy policy, the startup collects data about what you view, where you’re located, what you watch, as well as what could be inferred about you from that information.
But annotations left in its privacy policy that were published in error raise concerns about its data practices. As first noted by journalist Shoshana W...
