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LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices (www.notebookcheck.net)
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An investigation by Gamers Nexus found LG smart TVs sweep local networks to map phones and nearby devices. Tests also showed the sets can capture microphone audio with the screen off — they then upload data once reconnected to the internet.

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[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 16 points 5 days ago

It's fair to make it "you don't watch TV, TV watches you!"

Which I feel like might have been a real Yakov Smirnoff joke way back when.

[-] msfroh@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

Kind of — Bob Hope made the joke in the late 1950s:

Bob Hope, back from his Russian junket, noted that there had been TV in all the rooms of his Moscow hotel--”only it watches you”

Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/in-soviet-russia

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago

Brilliant!

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