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LG responds to TV spying allegations (www.theverge.com)
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Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about how LG’s TVs are logging and uploading data on its users. Now the company is pushing back against those allegations, saying that “Some recent media coverage may have contributed to misconceptions about how LG smart TVs work.”

LG released a statement in which it claims that its “TVs do not continuously record or transmit users’ conversations,” and that wake-word detection is all processed locally. However, the word “continuously” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here as Gamers Nexus demonstrated an LG TV keeping extensive logs of ambient conversations long after one would assume its AI assistant had stopped listening.

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[–] zpiritual@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I have a 43 inch samsung hospitality tv on the merchant ship I work on and it's the absolute worst display made since... The brightness is beyond terrible, colors are beyond dull and the speakers have more in common with the nokia 3310 than anything made past 2007.

Don't bother. Find a decent tv where you can remove the wifi functionality from physically or via software (jailbreaking, service remotes and such).

Also I was in japan and some hotels actually had some decent custom software (eg. "Hospitality) tvs that might be able to be found ... Somewhere.