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

submitted 2 days ago by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Thorry@feddit.org 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For people thinking about opening up their remotes and removing the microphone. You're free to do so as you please, but also note there has been zero evidence of any remotes doing any sort of recording unless the button is pressed.

Now this isn't to say the recording isn't forwarded to the mother ship once you do press that button, but the main concern has been the mic inside the TV. The remote has pretty limited batteries, if it were to record all the time it would run flat in a matter of hours. So if your remote does a year or so on the batteries, it's not recording anything unless you press the button to do so.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah. I think that is overkill. They leave the voice tied to a button so they don't have to filter out background for a command. This is just cost driven and so far cost of manufacture still drives companies ... Not data gained through background monitoring. Your data is valuable but not THAT valuable yet