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   Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 07:27:45 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

   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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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 07:27:38 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     • Space Catitude 🚀
     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
     • Eric Brombaugh
     • ZenHeathen 🇨🇦

     @emeb @ZenHeathen @TerryHancock @blogdiva That's fine for your set.

     It's not fine for all the other tens of millions of sets around 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.

     Huge numbers of these sets that _are_ on networks have audio microphones, and can hear you 50-70 feet away, and _are demonstrated in this video_ to be capable of making audio transcriptions of your conversations at distance.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Eric Brombaugh (emeb@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 07:27:41 JST Eric Brombaugh

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     • Space Catitude 🚀
     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
     • ZenHeathen 🇨🇦

     @ZenHeathen @TerryHancock @moira @blogdiva Just never let it connect to your network:
     * Don't give it your WiFi SSID/PW
     * Don't hook it to ethernet
     * Don't talk to it with Bluetooth

     If it insists on trying to find open networks in your area (there are reports that some do this) then open it up and remove the WiFi antenna.

     It's possible to buy commercial monitors - large screens such as are used in stores & venues that don't have all this spy-fi, but they're much more expensive.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 (zenheathen@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 07:27:43 JST ZenHeathen 🇨🇦

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     • Space Catitude 🚀
     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

     @TerryHancock @moira @blogdiva Good luck finding a brand that doesn't do this to some degree.

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     Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 07:27:44 JST Space Catitude 🚀

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     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

     @moira
     Well crap. Fortunately, my LG stuff predates wi-fi and I never plugged it in to the network. So no updates.

     But I guess I'll need to find a new brand for the next one.
     @blogdiva

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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 07:28:25 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

     in reply to

     • Space Catitude 🚀
     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
     • Eric Brombaugh
     • ZenHeathen 🇨🇦

     @emeb @ZenHeathen @TerryHancock @blogdiva

     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 their documentary.

     So "don't plug it in hur 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.