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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off this setting (www.pocket-lint.com)

submitted 1 day ago by greenbelt@lemy.lol to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Smart TVs with an internet connection: Lets grab screenshots and send them to cooperate analysis advertisement department.

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[–] pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 hours ago

Unfortunately, many have already gone "smart" in some capacity - which for me means doing anything I have not expressly allowed it to do. A relatively harmless example is my monitor sometimes deciding it needs to do "OLED protect" - and I cannot stop it from doing that sometimes. At least the idea behind that behaviour is legit (preventing burn-ins) - but ignoring the user's wishes absolutely not. A clanker that is my property will never get to tell me what it wants to do.