LG acknowledges smart TV 'silently' monitoring users

Jason Huntley, a British blogger and online nickname, DoctorBeet, recently discovered LG's smart TV acts to collect data about its activities. Korean technology firm has also officially confirmed this issue and pledged to fix it in the shortest time.

Jason Huntley found that the LG smart TV he was using tracked the channels he watched and the devices he attached to it. According to Ubergizmo , the technology world believes that the purpose of these " spy " actions is to develop advertising for each individual user based on their habit of watching TV. Huntley tried " dabbing " his TV and found out that the "collection of viewed information" option is turned on by default and even if he chooses to turn off, this smart TV continues to send information. go.

LG expressed " regret " for what this incident caused to users, and the company said it did not store data on its servers and the data also did not contain personal user information. . In addition, LG is trying to develop a patch for this bug. Specifically, the data will not be sent when the user chooses to turn off the " collection of viewed information " option, the ability to read and transfer the names of files stored on USB or other external drives on The same network with smart TV will also be removed.