Catalin Cimpanu2d ago

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.

Include Security Research Blog
Show threadRairii   1d ago
@campuscodi the "legal" residential proxy providers are all PUP peddlers anyway, so it's really not surprising
Show threadMoses Izumi
@Rairii @campuscodi
the term "Potentially Unwanted Program" implies that someone would actively want to use crap like Ask Toolbar.

[I suppose those kinda toolbars might've been worthwhile before Firefox and IE7 added search engines next to the address bar]
Jun 7 at 4:02pmWeb