Dan GillmorSep 26, 2024

Talk about a grotesque invasion of privacy:

"Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console"

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449198-smart-tvs-take-snapshots-of-what-you-watch-multiple-times-per-second/

How can this possibly be legal?

Here's why: Congress isn't just indifferent to your privacy. It is actively complicit with big corporations -- and law enforcement -- in embedding surveillance into everything we do.

Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

Smart TVs from Samsung and LG monitor what you are watching even when you are using the screens to display a feed from a connected laptop or video game console

New Scientist
Show threadme_valentijn

@dangillmor

Our new Samsung would stay on in stealth mode after we turned it off, and scan the network it was on every few seconds.

We discovered this because it would occasionally screw up and switch itself fully on in the middle night. It's now plugged into a wall switch which is turned off every night. And sequestered on a network where it won't see anything interesting 😬

Sep 26, 2024 at 6:35pmWeb
Show threadUlrikeSep 26, 2024
@me_valentijn @dangillmor
I just realized I can put my LG onto the IOT network for my router instead of the main network.