cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/71045682
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.
Stop. Buying. Bugs.
They’re just working as advertized.
Have you looked at an electronics store recently?
It’s “oops, all bugs!”
AFAIK you can’t even get a dumb Sceptre (which for several years were the last holdout) anymore!
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/commercial-tvs/all-commercial-tvs/
I bought one recently (a non-smart commercial display) and I’ve been loving it.
Let me know when I can get one at a place like Best Buy, Microcenter, or Costco.
Bought mine off eBay.
I buy nonsmart video projectors. These might be in short supply lately. I don’t buy bugs though.
As advertised? I don’t think any of these companies are literally bragging about spying on you. They’d rather no one ever know it. I only point this out because you make it sound like no one buying these “TVs” is a victim because they were told they’d be spied on. Which is…not what happened.
LG is on my permanent purchase blacklist for years because it’s what they do. They are a malware and spyware company pretending to be a hardware vendor.
Yes, if you have been living under the rock the last decade, I guess you should hire a good lawyer. But it is easier through direct wallet action.
Kinda puzzled by this response. I would never buy LG either… I recently heard more stories about them doing shit like this so I knew also, but I am not seeing the need for the negative implications. I simply said they don’t advertise this, and many, many people would never know it.