Anytime a company gets caught spying, it's pretty safe to assume they all do it but that company was just the first to get caught.

How to tell if something is possibly spying on you:

1. Can it connect to the internet?
2. Is the firmware/software controlled by a corporation?
3. Does it have sensors capable of surveillance, like a microphone or camera?

Solid article. Definitely recommend the read.

Here’s the video by Gamers Nexus the article is talking about. It’s 2 hours and 15 minutes long.

This is why I thought the "talk to your TV remote" things were all garbage...Involving a fucking microphone and a speech to text algorithm and potentially cloud bullshit just to fucking change a channel? Change the volume level? STUPID. It's much worse than just pressing a fucking button and having the volume / channel change immediately, as well as a needless sacrifice of what little remains of your privacy.

I don't get it with smart switches / smart fans and shit either. Like a light switch already works completely fine guys. I don't know why we need to be able to talk to this shit.

This article is utter bullshit normalizing this invasion of privacy by entertainment hardware vendors. "Everyone is doing it" is not a valid defense, it only shows that no one should be doing it and that the laws are too lax and not protecting people as they should.

Need to put them in a faraday cage.

In fact, maybe your entire house should be a faraday cage

My Samsung tv literally phones home and Netflix 24/7 even when it is off. My “Sniffet” app screams with nothing but Samsung and Netflix garbage URLs. So does my pi-hole. It’s insane how any of this is actually even legal.

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.

For people thinking about opening up their remotes and removing the microphone. You're free to do so as you please, but also note there has been zero evidence of any remotes doing any sort of recording unless the button is pressed.

Now this isn't to say the recording isn't forwarded to the mother ship once you do press that button, but the main concern has been the mic inside the TV. The remote has pretty limited batteries, if it were to record all the time it would run flat in a matter of hours. So if your remote does a year or so on the batteries, it's not recording anything unless you press the button to do so.

Oh the irony

Samsung Privacy. Download or Delete your data and opt out for all Samsung apps and Services.

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Sigh... it never ends.

Duh... it's pretty much like how the news only covered that one auto maker about how they track your activity but the reality is, they're all doing it.

If it has a mic or GPS, you better believe they'll have a way to track you. Don't matter if Android or iPhone, Kia, Niisan, whatever. Tech bros and the state are all in cahoots.

It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you

there, I fixed it.

Not if you still have a 1080p dumb TV from 10-12 years ago (I forget exactly its so old).

Yup.

Texas (and oddly, Ken Paxton) are currently suing five TV manufacturers for this. If anyone's interested I made a video about it on my channel.

the big mistake is buying a smart tv in the firs tplace.

Not my dumb tv from 2009, that's still kicking

This is why when i'm done watching TV, i would pull out the power plug from the electric socket.