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Smart TVs Are Watching You | Feisty Duck (www.feistyduck.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The researchers have discovered that automatic content recognition (ACR) tracking is active most of the time, even when TVs are used as “dumb” HDMI devices. In other words, the TV manufacturers are monitoring your private moments as well. There’s apparently no monitoring of streaming content in the UK, but there is in the US.

The only good news is that these TVs can seemingly be configured to disable ACR, provided the owners know this activity is taking place and are able to find the right settings. (I recently looked at the configuration of our TVs again, and understanding the various settings was far from easy.)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What if I just never connected it to the internet?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If it is a Samsung tv, they have been automatically connecting to any open wifi, maybe your neighbor has one. And there goes the data.

Avoid Samsung.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Source?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Sort of alarming how many upvotes this has without anybody providing any reference at all. We have enough privacy problems to worry about without people posting unsubstantiated claims :/

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ha, the nearest house to mine is a quarter mile away, good luck Samsung.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where is the info about this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A random hacker news comment. I'm in EU, where this kind of tracking is not legal, so I cannot validate...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I can't find anything about it. Claim seems sus tbh

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does it apply to Samsung PC monitors as well? Any way to check?

[–] dai 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You have wifi / ethernet in your PC monitor?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Samsung in particular has “smart” monitors, so for some of them the answer is unironically yes

[–] dai 1 points 2 days ago

Dear god, I do vaguely remember their launch (not my portfolio while working in PC component procurement) but had completely pushed that from my head.

Looks like LG have the same thing going on too, what a waste of silicon.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy 4 points 2 days ago

You'll have to desolder the WiFi card inside. Check teardowns of TVs from now when deciding to buy a new one