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Your TV Is Spying On You (www.ludlowinstitute.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.

Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.

Welcome to the future of "entertainment."

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[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 37 points 3 weeks ago

No, it's not. It has not connected to the internet.

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Some TVs will sneakily connect to open APs to try and phone home. It is nasty but it does happen. You can only be worry free if you yank out the radio module. Some TVs make it easier than others (My LG TV made it as easy as opening the back of the TV and disconnecting, YMMV)

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

My TV isn't a "smart" tv.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well, so, about that.

A lot of TV's will form mesh nets with same brand-or even across brands³-, until they find one that is connected. I've even heard reports of one with a sim card¹.

¹in a 'smoke filled room'² ²okay it was a van. A smoke filled van. And she was on some other stuff too.

³OS based i think? So instead of Sony's seeking Sony's or samsungs seeking samsungs, its android tvs or roku's or whatever forming meshes. Don't quote me on that though

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Where can I read about these mesh networks?

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Think there was an article in... I think wired a couple years back.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's the same thing apple's Find My runs on. Devices bounce off each other like the fires of gondor

[-] Joelk111@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My thoughts exactly. My Xbox is spying on me instead.

[-] pocker_machine@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think you meant - Me Xbox is spying on my instead.

[-] FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yup same, running a shield

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