Own an LG TV? It's been transcribing your conversations even while "off" and selling them to advertisers...
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Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
Researchers spent 500 hours and $70,000 and found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, and feeding it to LG's ad arm
Unplug the internet and it saves the files until you plug back in.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2097512546047586622?
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