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I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you

I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you

Brajeshwar

Comments (54)

  • throwa356262
    LG: No. ACR in LG TVs does not collect or store screenshots, screen images, screen recordings... Hold on, we already know this is not true. There is even an option in the settings to disable this (which is usually automatically reverted by LG within a week).The setting has the obvious name of "Live Plus".
  • ale42
  • PinkaDunka
    Interesting that in the beginning it says 'We know that many TVs use automatic content recognition (ACR)' but according to answers none of those manufacturers do.So which TVs do the ACRs, and why Verge did not send those questions to them? Hisense?
  • ourmandave
    Did any of them confirm the myth that the TV attempts to auto connect to any public wifi it can find or comes with a built in 5G modem?
  • MBCook
    I was impressed LG answered every question and quite directly, assuming they’re telling the truth.I was quite disappointed in Apple for dodging so many of them and giving non-answers. They need to tone down the corporate speak and take a lesson from LG.When asked if a user can erase everything the correct answer is not a thesis on privacy, it’s saying “Choosing Erase all settings and data will remove everything on the device back to factory fresh state”. They already have the perfect answer.Apple has good answers for many of the questions they skipped too. But they look bad by not even trying to answer.
  • bita_nidir
    Remember, "no answer" is still a data point.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_inference
  • tintor
    Samsung's representative is lying. Their TVs were proven to listen and classify environmental sounds in home.
  • tupac_speedrap
    The problem is the regulators in the US are in bed with the companies so they can say whatever and do the complete opposite and then get fined a trivial amount of money and just keep doing it
  • headz
    > I put together 17 yes-or-no questions...And they still managed to answer them in multiple sentences, and sometimes multiple paragraphs.
  • OroPla
    Dell isn't in the list, so I guess we keep pretending that monitors and TVs are somehow different.
  • Oarch
    > looks at TV, forgetting its brand.Toshiba.Hmm. Not in this list.
  • lux-lux-lux
    I’m sure this would be a lot more compelling if the site wasn’t unusable.
  • detourdog
    I was disappointed that the article described Apple's answers to some questions as not direct. They should have published the indirect answer. Let the reader judge the answers.
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