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i really want to know if using chromecast (separate tracking issue i know), disables LGTV tracking ? Cause the tv isnt connected to the internet chromecast is.
You haven't connected it to the internet, but:
Aren’t our other devices like firesticks listening too? The firestick and Apple TV remotes have microphones too, right?
Orders of magnitude. The LG TVs are full PCs, not single chip system. They arerunning image recognition on anything displayed on screen (not just from its own apps), transcribing anything they hear on microphones. Your fire stick will just phone home about what it is doing only. It's not a central hub of information.
Those run off USB power so if the TV isn't on and powering the device, it can't do anything.
Comcast gave me a remote when I started. I opened it up, shoved a pin in the mic hole and scrambled it until it couldn't recognize anything. Then I filled it with super glue.
Ok, but, how big would the file size be for the recordings? I doubt tv manufacturers would ship tvs with insane amounts of storage just so they can keep recordings.
It can (does!) run speech to text locally. All of The Lord of the Rings has 481,103 words. That's about 2.8 MB.
As long as they don't manage to buy bandwidth on Amazon sidewalk, Comcast, or something stupid like that, you're probably *fine. And I can't see them paying third parties to ship the data off an unidentified tv's.
TBH, I suspect the sending you all dictation off the TV was a really shitty accident. They were probably trying to build an Alexa-like service and left debug on. The fallout from this, the eventual court cases, the brand trust erosion, none of that is worth the model data, they're getting.
It's extremely likely that a STB or streaming device will keep your data out of the hands of LG.
Now you have to be concerned with that Google is doing with it :)
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Imagine the power to use any TV in any home as a spy device, and remote hack it. Because I'm sure that won't be abused. It's probably fine. We shouldn't worry about it. Plus the whole ownership, we own nothing, they claim they still own the glass, on top of the copyright ownership of the software. That's pretty all encompassing. That means you're essentially renting your TV. It's a push for reducing and eroding consumer rights. So we own nothing.
If you're using a seperate Chromecast stick in the HDMI port, then yes, LG's tracking will be disabled if the TV itself has no internet connection.
I would still be extremely wary; HDMI as a spec has the ability to carry Ethernet data.
I wouldn’t put it past the manufacturers from giving it a couple of years for this news cycle to pass from user memory, before trying more nefarious methods to try and exfiltrate data by piggybacking through connected devices like a Chromecast.
That’s mostly because I don’t trust Google to not help facilitate that for a share of the profits and access to the data for AI training.
Essentially no onr implements it.
playstation to sound system to [smarter than i'd like] tv.
i don't know how much data gets stripped out at the sound system, but i know they started making older sound formats stop working through the optical audio channel for "reasons" (probably to do with tracking) and we had to switch to HDMI. do not get me started.
The receiver takes the audio signal from the Playstation to push it to the speakers then sends the rest to the TV. Make sure the TV is not connected to the internet.