Monitors Turn to Ads, Pushing Privacy Boundaries
Ads and tracking once confined to smart TVs are spreading to computer monitors, with LG’s Monitor App Installer pushing ads onto connected PCs (a move Microsoft forced LG to reverse). The piece notes that smart monitors run OSes and can use ACR to track activity, meaning data could be shared with advertisers under current privacy policies from LG, Samsung, and Acer. It calls for clearer privacy disclosures, easier setup-based privacy controls, and maintaining dumb, non‑advertising monitors to prevent a privacy‑nightmare trajectory.
