Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
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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.
Replace TV with smartphone.