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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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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Matter over Thread with Home Assistant is the smarthome tech I'd recommend.

With that setup it all stays local. You can even block everything from the internet, unless you want to do an update.

It will work with Google/Apple/Alexa, but of course as soon as you do that... well, that's the point of running Home Assistant instead.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Zigbee for me, but on the apple front you can integrate homekit and control what's exposed. As far as apple is concerned there's just a webhook "basement light" that has an on or off command i can say