• kreskin@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Go to any mid sized or larger company and run a port scan and you’ll be immediately found and taken to the woodshed or fired.
    But I guess doing it unannounced in peoples home is just fine.

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    It’s weird that this is the takeaway from that investigation that big media is pushing.

    This is maliciously burying the headline that LG TVS ARE TRANSCRIBING EVERY WORD THEY HEAR IN YOUR HOUSE AND THEY’RE UPLOADING A TEXT LOG OF IT.

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      Depending on the TOS details, that may very well be a legit crime. Even in 1-party consent states this wouldn’t slide because LG isn’t a participant in the conversations it’s recording, and not everyone talking near a TV has agreed to the TOS.

      And even with generous TOS, there’s gonna be legal issues. HIPAA, for instance, could really fuck them if the TVs are in a medical facility and are recording and transmitting private medical data without consent of the patients.

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        It is undeniably a crime. But in Glorious Free Republican America large corporations are exempt from the law.

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          I think the HIPAA stuff specifically could fuck them HARD. That can be more easily pursued civily. Criminal Courts don’t mean much to companies because they have to pay a minor fine and it goes away, because criminal courts don’t seek relief or compensation. Civil courts are where corporations can get gigafucked.

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    2 months ago

    God damn LG is really flaming all the way down to the ground aren’t they. Greed will make you do crazy shit.

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    2 months ago

    My dad’s HP laptop started tripping a Honeypot on my network, now I gotta worry about LG as well…

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      2 months ago

      Exactly, I’m very disappointed. I bought and LG OLED in 2019, loved it for the image quality and smooth UI. It’s time for an upgrade soon, and I was thinking LG, but will probably have to go diff direction.

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      2 months ago

      Its all of them. The only tvs that aren’t doing this are dumb ones. The reason why they’re so cheap is that they are selling data. Its been this way for years.

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    2 months ago

    all smart tvs do this! they’ve been doing it for a decade at this point! I’ve been saying never to connect your tv to your internet for the past decade because of this stupid shit that’s only coming out now.

    never connect your tv to your internet or network. you want to watch netflix? don’t use your tv, use an appletv or nvidia shield device!

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    I can’t speak for every TV, but I was able to remove the Wi-Fi card from my TV. It might be something you can do with your TV too. In my case I just had to unscrew the back panel, find the card, and disconnect it. Thankfully it was a separate circuit board rather than part of a larger board.