LG Users: Our privacy is spied on by Smart TV

NetEase Science and technology news November 22, according to foreign media reports, South Korea LG Electronics Thursday confirmed that has received some of the information about its smart television equipment under unauthorized snooping user activity data, and feedback back to the company's complaints. LG is now investigating the issue. A British user recently said in a personal blog that by using the network traffic Analysis tool, LG Smart TV will continue to secretly record the content of the channel after the "Information gathering" feature has been turned off. And not only that, all files on a removable hard disk are scanned and recorded when the TV is connected via USB. This data, along with the independent ID of the smart TV itself, will be secretly fed back to LG in an unencrypted way without the user's knowledge. As the world's second-largest television producer, LG Electronics has stressed that users ' privacy issues will always be the first, and that companies will take the issue seriously and deal with it. LG Smart TV is running an advertising platform called LG Smart AD, according to information from LG's official website. Through this service, advertisers can use the device's independent ID, regional information, demographic information (such as age and gender) to put targeted ads. It is not clear which feature of LG Intelligent TV system has prompted the issue of monitoring and leaking of privacy data. (Lu Xin)