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LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
(www.notebookcheck.net)
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2026
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Oh damn, that's a long video... since we already have a TV I guess I won't be watching the entire thing.
I guess they could do that if they included a wireless modem in the TV. That would be kind of crazy though - companies don't make that much money off harvesting user data like this, so paying for a mobile connection would be surprising to me.
IIRC the user marketing data exfiltration method pioneered by Samsung several years ago involves a form of Bluetooth P2P/mesh networking whereby a TV with no internet connection can handshake with, for example, a neighbor’s TV which does have internet enabled or, if they’re just as tinfoil as you and disabled their internet, your data and theirs could simply be relayed to another neighbor’s TV on a different floor, etc etc
You've got to admire it on one level.
Hopefully they're too scared of the GDPR to try that shit here.
Yes, quite clever. No iron ring for the engineer, but I’m sure they were briefly proud of themselves.
That’s a good question re: gdpr. Regional activation of those modules in FW revision is certainly possible. But my guess is that the difference relates to the payload contents and whether or which PII is permitted by any particular local laws, since I expect that would maximize profits.
Kind of fascinating the whole tinfoil spying angle was about governments, but turns out even if governments didn't do it companies now have every incentive to do it to monetize your data.