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Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads (www.tomshardware.com)
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A hacker reverse-engineered his own Samsung TV and found alarming spying activity, including code that used connected devices' microphones to listen to users.

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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 days ago

Smart TVs were pretty clearly designed for exactly this purpose.