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LG responds to TV spying allegations (www.theverge.com)
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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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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 29 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly this.

If any of GN's claims were false, it'd be a very serious case of false allegations. LG could easily sue them, win quickly, get a couple million dollars in damages, and more.

The fact that they're not suing tells us all we need to know.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, even then lots of times courts are used in asymmetrical economic situations against the smaller party so not always a tell with shitty actors.