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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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[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 days ago

They're adding a forced arbitration clause to their upcoming ToS, clearly the actions of innocent people

[-] The_Worst@feddit.nl 7 points 2 days ago

Luckily forced arbitration is not legal in the EU.

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Because it's a civilized place not whatever the USA is

[-] ouch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I don't dispute that, but can you point to the relevant law?

[-] The_Worst@feddit.nl 1 points 13 hours ago

A pre-dispute contractual clause that removes those consumer jurisdiction rights is generally restricted.

Separately, under the EU Unfair Contract Terms Directive, a standard term that effectively excludes or hinders a consumer's ability to take legal action can be considered unfair and therefore not binding on the consumer.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/1993/13/2022-05-28/eng

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A62019CJ0519

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

this is fine, everyone file seperately

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