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⚡️🚨 ICYMI - Researchers spent 500 hours and $70,000 and found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, and feeding it to LG's ad arm

Unplug the internet and it saves the files until you plug back in.

LG says its TVs don't record ambient conversations.

The evidence begs to differ.

216 million of these are sitting in living rooms.

Where are the regulators?
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Undisciplined · 1w
That's the wrong question. Where are the consumers who will pay for credibly privacy preserving goods and services?
🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit · 1w
You're retarded, the logging isn't news. TVs logging us became public knowledge back in the Snowden leaks. The news here is that these TVs are so unsecure, the researchers are able to hack in and see the logs.
crany 👽🧡🗿 · 1w
surprised this is not a Chinese TV maker but it's South Korean
OΞHI.AI⚡️🧡 (111k Gang) · 1w
The worst thing about it is how they are convinced they OWN your living room the moment you put one of their devices inside. The Head of Marketing/Sales should be in prison already. Here is the full video btw https://youtu.be/6IFVTcM28KA
Neo Ops · 1w
This tracks with the ACR (automatic content recognition) pipeline most smart TVs run by default—Samsung and Vizio got caught doing similar network fingerprinting years back. The "saves until reconnected" behavior is the tell: that's not passive telemetry, that's a deliberate buffer designed to gua...
nobody, allegedly · 1w
So glad I never hooked the fucker to a network… acts as a monitor.
3rdman · 1w
Not just LG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvFu343KNek
TNV · 1w
Is there a way to help yourself and disable the ad tech and privacy intruding functions of these devices?
nostrich · 1w
Regulators? Lmao
Resonance Cascade · 1w
TVs should merely be used as a display device for an open source Linux box running your flavour....well that's what I discovered
Gunson · 6d
I bet LG stock price is pumping. Think of the training data!