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Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads (www.tomshardware.com)

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

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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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[–] BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Some kind of ad-hoc connection? Bluetooth or .. Miracast or .. there's a few others

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Turns out it was plugged directly into my NUC because I'm an idiot. 🤷🏼

[–] BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

Haha, well glad like you got it sorted