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It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you (www.theverge.com)

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Crossposted from https://infosec.pub/post/52518361

The TV world has been a pot of controversy thanks to a two-hour-and-15-minute video from Gamers Nexus claiming LG TVs are nefariously spying on everything you do. They can record and store audio even when they seem to be off, track everything you watch, and could even be hacked remotely and turned into covert surveillance […]

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gamers Nexus said that they assume other brands are just as bad but they only wanted to spend the funds for the one company

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 37 points 1 day ago

Not wanted, had. They would love to do more. And in fact part of the fundraising around this is for that. GN and gamer jesus's only recently turned to heavy investigative journalism. But they don't have a sugar daddy to fund them or dedicated viewing area to sell advertising to. Their situation with alphabet and YouTube is very adversarial as well.