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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How I Discovered My Smart TV Was Spying On Me

Proceeds to never explain how.

When I Noticed My Smart TV Was Spying on Me

Proceeds to never say when this happened...

Can we get an article that isn't vapor clickbait maybe?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I will summarise my experience.

When I bought an LG Oled C5 TV and started it up I read the EULA and privacy agreements, there were five of them for some reason. I declined all except for the first.

Buried in the fourth agreement are details of screenshot capture of content being watched, of photos of viewers, facial recognition for age and demographic identification and voice recording of key words for advertising purposes.

So my LG TV doesn’t get internet access.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

That's sucks and all mate, dunno if it has anything to do with what I said though :x

My issue is the entire posted article appears to just be AI generated nothing-script.

It has headlines that have nothing to do with the content.

I also have started to notice gippity content has certain patterns it always follows, especially it's last few sentences seem to always be very "In summary..." style.

When I see content written like this so poorly I just assume now it's AI generated garbage.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I carefully declined everything, and dialed automates. Then I updated manually, and the update auto-enabled everything I declined.

So I factory reset the TV and didn't connect it to the Internet again.

These criminals should be in prison.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

This is why I don't buy proprietary smartdevices.