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The chickens have come home to roost, because tech sceptics have been talking about this for years - and the proof is in the pudding, thanks to #GamersNexus and Wendell of #Level1Techs. Of course the vendor denies it, in the face of irrefutable evidence.
We know that #surveillance capitalism is only getting worse and from it a #surveillancestate will be born.
#LG responds to #TV spying allegations | The Verge
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RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/117230619653386536
Watching it now and yep. Fucking straight out of Watch Dogs 2.
I now feel bad for people who bought LG crap unaware it can record everything.
Like imagine your good innocent and hardworking dad bought you a LG TV and assembled it in your room by himself when you were 10 years old back in 2016 as a monitor for your gaming rig, xbos, ps4/5, sometimes for watching Netflix and you still use it today connected to the net this whole entire time, literally half of your life is in LG datacenters. Eughh !
Even if they didn't do it back then, that's still gross.
Although I wish I have that kind of dad who can play video games with ya, who doesn't gaslight, guilt trip and hover over your head constantly like a fucking helicopter GTA 3 star wanted level style.
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/117230619653386536
Watching it now and yep. Fucking straight out of Watch Dogs 2.
I now feel bad for people who bought LG crap unaware it can record everything.
Like imagine your good innocent and hardworking dad bought you a LG TV and assembled it in your room by himself when you were 10 years old back in 2016 as a monitor for your gaming rig, xbos, ps4/5, sometimes for watching Netflix and you still use it today connected to the net this whole entire time, literally half of your life is in LG datacenters. Eughh !
Even if they didn't do it back then, that's still gross.
Although I wish I have that kind of dad who can play video games with ya, who doesn't gaslight, guilt trip and hover over your head constantly like a fucking helicopter GTA 3 star wanted level style.
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/117230619653386536
Watching it now and yep. Fucking straight out of Watch Dogs 2.
I now feel bad for people who bought LG crap unaware it can record everything.
Like imagine your good innocent and hardworking dad bought you a LG TV and assembled it in your room by himself when you were 10 years old back in 2016 as a monitor for your gaming rig, xbox, ps4/5, sometimes for watching Netflix and you still use it today connected to the net this whole entire time, literally half of your life is in LG datacenters. Eughh !
Even if they didn't do it back then, that's still gross.
Although I wish I have that kind of dad who can play video games with ya, who doesn't gaslight, guilt trip and hover over your head constantly like a fucking helicopter GTA 3 star wanted level style.
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/117230619653386536
Watching it now and yep. Fucking straight out of Watch Dogs 2.
I now feel bad for people who bought LG crap unaware it can record everything.
Like imagine your good innocent and hardworking dad bought you a LG TV and assembled it in your room by himself when you were 10 years old back in 2016 as a monitor for your gaming rig, xbox, ps4/5, sometimes for watching Netflix and you still use it today connected to the net this whole entire time, literally half of your life is in LG datacenters. Eughh !
Even if they didn't do it back then, that's still gross.
Although I wish I have that kind of dad who can play video games with ya, who doesn't gaslight, guilt trip and hover over your head constantly like a fucking helicopter GTA 3 star wanted level style.
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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📺🕵️♀️ LG répond aux accusations d’espionnage de ses TV, Gamers Nexus contre-attaque
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📺🕵️♀️ LG répond aux accusations d’espionnage de ses TV, Gamers Nexus contre-attaque
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📺🕵️♀️ LG répond aux accusations d’espionnage de ses TV, Gamers Nexus contre-attaque
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📺🕵️♀️ LG répond aux accusations d’espionnage de ses TV, Gamers Nexus contre-attaque
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📺🕵️♀️ LG répond aux accusations d’espionnage de ses TV, Gamers Nexus contre-attaque
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RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/117230619653386536
I haven't watched the vid but me wonders if they had spying tech on their CRT TV's too cos we used to have one, lol
I wouldn't be surprised if it had one, but honestly this is like something out of Watch Dogs 2.
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/117230619653386536
I haven't watched the vid but me wonders if they had spying tech on their CRT TV's too cos we used to have one, lol
I wouldn't be surprised if it had one, but honestly this is like something out of Watch Dogs 2.
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/117230619653386536
Remember how every LG Smart TV is a spy machine spying on everyone it can all the time?
LG are calling GamersNexus liars, and GN have things to say about that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToP9xfLDSME
...which is why they made a two-hour video demonstrating their claims over and over again.
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/117230619653386536
Remember how every LG Smart TV is a spy machine spying on everyone it can all the time?
LG are calling GamersNexus liars, and GN have things to say about that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToP9xfLDSME
...which is why they made a two-hour video demonstrating their claims over and over again.
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/117230619653386536
Remember how every LG Smart TV is a spy machine spying on everyone it can all the time?
LG are calling GamersNexus liars, and GN have things to say about that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToP9xfLDSME
...which is why they made a two-hour video demonstrating their claims over and over again.
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/117230619653386536
Remember how every LG Smart TV is a spy machine spying on everyone it can all the time?
LG are calling GamersNexus liars, and GN have things to say about that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToP9xfLDSME
...which is why they made a two-hour video demonstrating their claims over and over again.
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/117230619653386536
Remember how every LG Smart TV is a spy machine spying on everyone it can all the time?
LG are calling GamersNexus liars, and GN have things to say about that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToP9xfLDSME
...which is why they made a two-hour video demonstrating their claims over and over again.
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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This Week in Security: It’s Patch Tuesday Again, TVs Spying, Supply Chain Worms Return, Prolonged Hack Impacts, Stolen IDs
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🆕Telewizory LG szpiegują ludzi? Zarzuty są poważne
➡️https://rootblog.pl/lg-oskarzone-o-szpiegowanie-ludzi-za-pomoca-smart-tv/ -
LG has now "strongly denied recent claims that its smart TVs constantly log and upload data". However, no such claims were made by #GamersNexus - at least in the video I saw.
It seems that some people reporting and commenting on the video jumped to hasty conclusions. If you watch the video carefully, GN doesn't claim that the TVs would be recording or performing speech-to-text constantly. The recording only occurs when you prompt the device to do so (however, the device stays in this mode for a long while, it seems, and the microphone is super sensitive and capable of capturing audio from quite a distance away).
What likely confused people was the fact that the video also covered the topic of compromising the device and then using it for recording or surveillance. In this situation, the normal operation of the device is maliciously modified in order to use the device as a listening device. When this is successfully done, all restrictions or limitations are naturally bypassed. Apparently some of the LG TVs also have vulnerabilities that allow taking over the devices remotely, over the network. Notably LG didn't comment on the existence of such vulnerabilities.
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LG #SmartTVs als "#Spionagegeräte", die mit #ACR-Funktionen die Geräteumgebung erfassen und aufzeichnen. Hinzukommen Sicherheitslücken, die Angreifer zur Überwachung und Kompromittierung weitere Geräte nutzen können, lautet der Vorwurf des YouTube-Kanals #GamersNexus
https://borncity.com/blog/2026/09/08/lg-smart-tvs-koennen-selbst-im-standby-mithoeren/
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Oh, look, another tech bro trying to "stick it to the man" by rooting their TV and acting surprised when their credit card details end up on the internet 🌐🙄. I mean, who wouldn't want to turn their living room into a personal surveillance state? 📺🔍 Kudos to #GamersNexus for "discovering" that TVs with ads might be a tad invasive 😱👏.
https://leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:yhgc5rlqhoezrx6fbawajxlh/3muwrqenzfk2n #techbros #privacy #invasion #TVhacking #surveillancestate #digitalsecurity #HackerNews #ngated -
GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea
https://leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:yhgc5rlqhoezrx6fbawajxlh/3muwrqenzfk2n
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605424
#HackerNews #GamersNexus #LG #TV #Rooting #TechAdvice #GamingCommunity
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Can you hear your neighbour's LG TV? Because it can hear you.
If the microphone is "off," you have to be closer - but they can still do it.
It's all demonstrated in the documentary. They do this _on camera_.
So "don't plug it in hur hur" doesn't work. It only cuts out one node of _tens of millions_.
This isn't a problem that can be solved by being smarter than everyone else, because even if you _are_ smarter than everyone else, you're still smarter than _everyone else_, and _they're_ all plugging _their_ sets into the network. That is, after all, most likely _why_ they bought a smart TV. To do exactly that.
Like it or not, this requires _collective_ action.
#LG #surveillance #spying #news #GamersNexus #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV
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RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/117230619653386536
I'm getting too many "hur hur hur don't plug it into the network" responses that miss the point.
That's fine for your set.
It's not fine for all the other tens of millions of sets around you, _which also listen to you_.
These sets spy on every network they can sense, wifi and LAN, including yours to one degree or another if you live next door. They build profiles and geolocate, even if you never owned one, even if you never shared a network with one.
And if you _did_ share a network with one of these sets, they have IDed every network device you have and started building profiles around them.
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#lg #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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This is the big LG television surveillance documentary story GN have been working on for a couple of months, and that they previewed a few days ago.
The complete pervasiveness of spying upon not just you and what you watch but _every person and every device around every set_ is genuinely staggering. And it gets worse if you use their apps, particularly the LG TV "network":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA
Having an old set DOES NOT HELP YOU; they've been adding these spying functions in firmware updates.
So DO NOT BUY ANYTHING LG. Certainly not anything "smart."
#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus
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They've included a number of clips of people from LG saying "We own the glass".
If that's the case, them fuckers can give me back the £800 I paid for mine.
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I have only seen the first 15 minutes of the new video by #GamersNexus ("216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem") and oh boy this shit is scary. Watch it right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA
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If you own an LG TV, you don’t own it, you are the product since it can spy on you.
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From #GamersNexus: “216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem.”
LG TVs watch, analyze, and report on what’s on your screen. They record and report on conversations in range of the microphone, even without a wake word (technically, after a false positive or after an unreasonable delay after the wake word, or 60 ft away across a building). They scan and report on other devices on your network, and other networks in your vicinity. And unplugging them from your network may not be enough to stop them.
LG does exactly what you’d expect with all that data, and more you may not have imagined yet if you haven’t watched enough Black Mirror episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA
#infosec #security #privacy #surveillance #surveillanceCapitalism
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RE: https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117054792127968357
I seriously suspect certain #Democrats could gain a lot of support from demographics that have a disproportionate share of otherwise Republican-voting or non-voting people by committing to using all legal and budgetary tools of state power to restore the supply and reduce the price of PC and laptop DRAM (and SSDs too) for individuals and for organizations other than the hyper-scalers.
Potential policy actions include using (perhaps after amending) the CHIPS and Science Act, using the Defence Production Act, starting and funding FTC and antitrust investigations, and even creating a state corporation to build a chip fab specifically for RAM and SSDs in standard PC and laptop forms.
I could see Rep. #AOC and Sen. Elizabeth Warren successfully using this to direct attention and votes away from Republicans, even well outside #NY14 and #MA (respectively). A couple others who would be credible to advocate the federal government intervene to redirect semiconductor supply away from enterprise AI (HBM) and back toward general computing (DRAM) could include Joyner Kiros (already opposed to AI data center construction), and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (already opposed by the entire oligarchy; he could address semiconductor hoarding both as part of his populist economic messaging and as part of the cost, through hospital hardware prices, of healthcare).
Combining and connecting RAM & SSDs with related issues of #rightToRepair, #rightToOwn, #privacy, land, water, electricity, pollution, noise, underhanded municipal interference, creative and intellectual labor theft, and opposition to the AI, cryptocurrency (in fewer places), and #surveillance (in more places) industries, several Democratic candidates could make headway with a demographic of voters who usually lean highly libertarian or politically disaffected—voters who heavily favored Republicans in 2024 due to Elon Musk’s aggressive anti-establishment electioneering (which they now realize was disingenuous). Right now, most of that base is feeling betrayed and irate, as the hyper-scalers are interfering with their passions, their property, their jobs, and their businesses.
Places which could be swung with such an expanded hardware-focused platform, where parts availability and affordability is addressed as part of R2R, may include #TX10 (home to a lot of tech manufacturing and a large population of hardware engineers and technicians who despise corporate anti-repair, including #LouisRossmann himself), and perhaps #NC13 (where a candidate would need to focus specifically on hardware price-gouging and the right to repair as matters of autonomy, while avoiding anything too "over-regulation" sounding).
#OR05 (a right-to-repair battleground with many independent repair professionals and DIY enthusiasts who view anti-repair as an assault on private property) already has a Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Bynum could secure support of a demographic of voters who might otherwise lean R by addressing this issue. Similarly, #NC02 (home of #GamersNexus) currently has a #Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Ross could meet with Steve Burke (whom I'm guessing is a constituent of hers) on GN and discuss this.
And then there's the "AI" industry and data center backlash, where, depending on riding, voters could be swayed with varying emphases. Land, water, and drought issues may reach voters in #TX21 and #AZ01; noise pollution and underhanded municipal interference in #VA10 and #GA06; creative and intellectual labor theft in #CA30 and #NY10.
To gain effective rhetoric, candidates and their staff could study a bunch of recent GamersNexus reporting, especially the #GNCA videos, and read the popular comments on those videos from fans. (I'd suggest @davidgerard as a source, but I'm guessing he's from the UK. AFAIK, Steve Burke is American. I'd volunteer if the #NDP or #GreenParty wanted to run on this issue. @avilewis?)
For examples of this messaging in practice, already credible voices for a #consumerRights focus include Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (a R2R champion in #WA03 who could appeal to libertarians, PC builders, and rural tech-hobbyists who voted Republican in 2024 but despise corporate infringement on private property), and Sen. Ron Wyden (a long-standing advocate for consumer privacy and digital rights in #OR — a state with a lot of tech professionals and digital sovereignty advocates).
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Anyone have a contact in #Alphabet / #Google / #YouTube who could help Angela of #ParkrosePermaculture defend against a campaign of clearly malicious and vexatious abuses of the #copyrightStrike system?
Or maybe if someone's in contact with Steve Burke of #GamersNexus, or with #LouisRossmann, each of whom have dealt with this before, one of them could advise?
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Good thing they have Wendell. 🙃
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpjcmXbmMVM
#Discord #Fluxer #Matrix #Teamspeak #Zulip #Stoat #Mattermost #GamersNexus -
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Hot damn the GamersNexus AMD campus tour was insane. Incredibly well-done. Make time to watch it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H4eg2jOvVw #amd #tour #factory #factorytour #testinglab #lab #radeon #threadripper #gamersnexus
