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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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[–] 25 points 2 weeks ago

I once tried to connect my Galaxy phone to my Samsung TV that is not connected to the local network. And the phone not only connected via bluetooth to share the video I was trying to project, it also silently passed my wifi credentials from the phone to the TV and connected itself to the internet.

Got rid of the Samsung phone soon after, and I won’t buy another Samsung TV either when this one dies.

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