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 threadJohn BreenSep 26, 2024
@dangillmor I have developed the software for such platforms, and I will not trust my "smart TV" (the only ones you can purchase as commodity items) with any internet access, at all. It gets an HDMI input from my computer, or maybe a Roku/AppleTV device if I trust it this week.
Zero trust for my TV platform security, not trusting it with my WiFi network creds or the ability to upload screenshots to their Command and Control infrastructure.
Show threadJohn BreenSep 26, 2024
@dangillmor
I trust my Hyundai car with its own LTE connection (that I can't verifiably disable) even less.
Show threadque :verifried:
@jab01701mid @dangillmor i am going through this - keep asking the dealer! making noise and demanding their time is the only way i can think of to impact.
i wondered if you can report the imei of the car to be blocked by the celluar provider? (its yours now, right??)
Sep 26, 2024 at 11:15pmWeb
Show threadJohn BreenSep 26, 2024
@que @dangillmor I disassembled the "shark fin" and physically disconnected the wire I believe to be the LTE radio antenna. But still it reports to the Hyundai cloud.
I believe there is a separate LTE radio embedded in the dashboard/entertainment/headunit. Antenna possibly part of the windshield assembly.
But I'm getting close to buying a totaled Hyundai from a junkyard rather than disassembling my own car to find out...