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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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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

We needed AI models before the microphones could be useful. Storing off voice audio and transcribing it was only useful when the State wanted to know what you're up to. Only now that a model can reduce it to text and add it to your dossier, does it truly become useful intel.