Security researchers have accused Israeli company Bright Data of turning smart TVs into AI web scraping proxy nodes without their owners specific consent

https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/

The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy - Include Security Research Blog

In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.

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Not my smart TV, no. Because it's rarely plugged into the power grid.