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LG responds to TV spying allegations (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 day ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about how LG’s TVs are logging and uploading data on its users. Now the company is pushing back against those allegations, saying that “Some recent media coverage may have contributed to misconceptions about how LG smart TVs work.”

LG released a statement in which it claims that its “TVs do not continuously record or transmit users’ conversations,” and that wake-word detection is all processed locally. However, the word “continuously” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here as Gamers Nexus demonstrated an LG TV keeping extensive logs of ambient conversations long after one would assume its AI assistant had stopped listening.

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[–] inquanto@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I have an LG C3 that I never connected to Wifi or plugged an ethernet cable into. I only use it with my nvidia shield running lineage OS, am I still affected by this / anything I should do?

[–] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yes you're still effected.

It's not unreasonable to assume it may have been connected to the internet unbeknownst to you if there's been an unsecured network close by that your tv could connect to.

An attacker could (and gamers Nexus demonstrated this) connect to your television and read transcripts of things you've said in your house when you didn't realise your tv was listening. If you've never used the voice recognition wake word around your tv you might be ok, but an attacker can also change the wake word to something you might casually say (they showed this too)

If you do own an LG tv it's worth watching the gamers Nexus video to fully be aware of what is happening.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Effect: a thing: particle effects, fireworks, special effects

Affect: something is changed: affected by politics, smoking in public affects others, affected by the amount of love from your parents

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's literally in the comment they are responding to...

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 minutes ago (1 children)

Nah, they used the wrong one. It's not a big deal, but I like having easy ways to help remember common misspellings or weird things. Like on two axis graphs, the X and Y coordinates sometimes get confusing. So, in order to remember which coordinate is which, X and then Y, and then you have to RUN (horizontal, X) before you JUMP (vertical, Y). I heard that from some teacher when I was a kid and never forgot.

[–] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 minutes ago

Wait, I'm the guy you corrected. What's the easy way to remember affected vs effected? You just told me which is which, but do you have a trick like you do for the X vs Y axis on a graph?