LG TVs Snoop Your Local Network, Listen To You When ‘Off’

LG hasn’t been making many friends lately. It annoyed some LG “smart” TV users recently when it tried to force them to use Microsoft’s Copilot AI system. It’s also been force-installing surveillance bloatware on many LG user’s monitors as it ramps up data surveillance and monetization. Now LG is in hot water again, after YouTube channel Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and security researchers got together to demonstrate that LG TVs are sniffing around your local network, and even listening to your local environment, even when the TV is purportedly “off”:  “The YouTube channel used Wireshark, a network protocol analyzer tool, and inspected the TV’s firmware and found that LG TVs...

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