@GuillaumeRossolini

Yes, but can't the same be said of tablets and phones? And again, as long as you follow the guidance to turn that crap off, you should be fine.

@dangoodin @GuillaumeRossolini

Tablets & phones are personal devices that people *generally* understand to carry some risk. Only children and the extremely naïve don't perform basic infosec.

A TV is different. It's an appliance, and older people assume it's a passive display like their old Magnavox but bigger & prettier. They don't think of it as a computer.

IMHO we need *more* paranoia about smart TVs, not less. It's not fear mongering if the risk is real.

@ralfmaximus @GuillaumeRossolini

There's no more risk than smartphones, tablets, computers and many other devices, or Facebook, Github, Google, Twitter or your credit card issuer. You should have as much paranoia related to these things as you do smartTVs.

@dangoodin @ralfmaximus @GuillaumeRossolini This feels like whataboutism.

"TVs shouldn't collect so much data."

"What about your smartphone, tablet, etc?"

I tend to agree that none of them should collect that much data, but we're talking about TVs right now, not the other things

@godmaire @ralfmaximus

No, we're talking about how silly it is to say "Don't connect your smartTV to the Internet" when you connect equally dangerous things to the Internet on an hourly basis. That's what this discussion is about.