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[url= https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131119/06503625288/lg-smart-tv-caught-collecting-data-files-stored-connected-usb-drives.shtml ]Smart TV Reading YOUR DATA[/url]
Serves him right for watching Midget Pr0n, the duurty purve.
😉
why not just block LG's addresses on your firewall?
The new Facebook App for android reads all your text messages.
This is all getting a bit scary, the smart TV thing especially. I sort of expect it to report back my viewing, I really don't expect it to report back everything it finds on a had I attach. More than a little naughty really
[i]Serves him right for watching Midget Pr0n[/i]
Just so no-one misunderstands, he labelled a directory 'midget pron' on a USB stick or whatever to see if the TV harvested it. It was new and recognisable. The TV beamed it up. LG have since wound their necks in but said nowt.
Oh and stuff on your home network.
[quote=wwaswas said]The new Facebook App for android reads all your text messages.
It requests the ability to have read access. This is very different from actually reading your messages. It does this for integration of SMS into the messaging portion of the Facebook app, Whatsapp has had the same security requirement for as long as I've used it and nobody has batted an eye....
If you're running 4.3 and above, install appops and disable the permission if it worries you, or don't use the app, or facebook, or the internet 😀
Don't need a smart TV, the computer I've got connected to mine does all the smarts I need.