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Secretly recording conversations in peoples homes sounds like it should be against the law in a number of countries.
Imagine someone working for the government, security services, or a defence contractor. I suspect LG may be in trouble with a number of National Security agencies.
Recording without consent is very much a crime in any single-party state, but my guess is that the TOS that people click past to use the TV gives them permission to record you. If it didn't, they would be in big legal hot water.
Should be. Hope it happens and quickly
Only in trouble if they didn't loop them in on the audio feeds.
EU really should regulate against this kind of behaviour
Problem us that there are too few tech literate politicians
It's not the politicians job to know everything but to make decisions and legislate based on information from the expertise. It is the people in the know that need to make the proposals for the politicians to bring it up. It's us, the tech literate, that need to write proposals that are informative with arguments derived from trusted sources to make the politicians aware that these are concerns that need to be addressed.
Sadly, I don't have time or money to do that. You know who does? Big tech does!
I ran a packet capture on my TV as I left it turned off overnight.
They wake up in the middle of the night, do "stuff" then go back offline. Like a zombie.
Oh, nice. Who doesn't like their fucking TV snooping on them?
Ugh. So blocklists were not enough. Time to isolate my telly on the router.
If your television is connected to any network at all its already too late.
Even then it's rumoured some brands of TV try to connect to Bluetooth connected devices to connect to the net. I think that was Samsung.
Amazon Sidewalk - even if you didn't connect it, it could still be spying
You could try to host your DNS, change the router DNS to that and then spend a while to see to which addresses the TV talk to and block them, it's probably time consuming but if you have that time, it can work
Yeah, I know. I have a blocklist for LG and other common brands compiled by someone else on my router DNS adblocker. But considering how sneaky they are with collecting information they should stay the fuck away from, I bet they have mechanisms to get around their common ad domains for the data that matters.
My LG TV is not getting network privileges, ever. I wonder if there is a way to turn off the WiFi radio altogether.
A soldering iron will do it...
I guess it's time to start unplugging everything at the wall when not in use
Isn't that what android does all the time?
Depends on the ROM/OEM.
Clarification: Most Android users don't use custom firmware ("ROM"). OEM means the company that makes your phone. All the major ones use Google Play Services. Nothing and OnePlus might be exceptions as those are known for using custom firmware that is more private. Also, Pixel phones running GrapheneOS ostensibly do not include Google Play Services. But Pixel phones don't ship with GrapheneOS. You have to add that yourself by unlocking the bootloader (available deep in the settings, wipes the phone), and manually flashing the custom firmware (CFW or "ROM") to the phone.
Starting today I'm going to yell epstein files at my tv
Welp glad I never put in my WiFi. This’ll be my last LG
Is this with accepting all their terms and functionality, or also when declining?
I don't know anything about those TVs, but i bet that if you decline you just have a fancy brick on your table, just like with every smartphone
