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It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Crossposted from https://infosec.pub/post/52518361

The TV world has been a pot of controversy thanks to a two-hour-and-15-minute video from Gamers Nexus claiming LG TVs are nefariously spying on everything you do. They can record and store audio even when they seem to be off, track everything you watch, and could even be hacked remotely and turned into covert surveillance […]

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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. I think that is overkill. They leave the voice tied to a button so they don't have to filter out background for a command. This is just cost driven and so far cost of manufacture still drives companies ... Not data gained through background monitoring. Your data is valuable but not THAT valuable yet

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