LG brand smart TVs spying on you

[pmbug]

Apparently, they record audio even when the TV is supposedly turned off and save the recordings to upload over the internet if not connected.

The LG Smart TVs we've tested have first-party ACR (automatic content recognition) functionality that can pry into your personal life with greater precision than you might realize, with LG Ad Solutions' executives and leadership saying, on camera, that LG "owns the glass." Not you -- even though you bought it -- but them. They also talk about knowing everybody in the household, knowing the secondary devices, moving from TVs to smartphones and other screens, and more in their B2B discussions. Beyond just the fact that we think the TV's native behavior parallels malware, the LG Smart TVs we tested also have a number of security vulnerabilities that can be exploited to convert the TVs into covert listening devices. In this investigation, we dive into the mix of LG's first-party functionality that (in our opinions) is tantamount to spying and LG's vulnerabilities and exploits that they have failed to protect against.

 

[Casey Jones]

Whatta surprise...

Maybe, just as with all that processed food, now filled with seed oils...maybe the thing to do is, figure out how to do without the damn thing. Nothing on there is worth watching, IMHO. And IT is watching YOU.

Kill your television.

 

[Joe King]

All "smart" tv's do that.


What we need are after market open-source ROM's to flash a tv with so as to get rid of that shit.

Ie: like ya can do with some cell phones.

Maybe some day


What ya can do, is to segregate all your tv's and other IOT devices onto their own network and then use Wire Shark to see exactly who/what they are communicating with, and then block those domains in your router.
(segregation keeps their prying eyes off your other network devices)

Might not get rid of all of it, but you can stop a lot of it.

 

[Fatrat]

If you left it on Talk Radio all day...