LG 电视即便在离线或待机状态下也会监控用户。
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

原始链接: https://www.theverge.com/tech/991190/lg-tv-spying-standby-recording-wi-fi-scanning-gamers-nexus

近期由《Gamers Nexus》、《Level1Techs》及安全研究人员联合展开的一项调查显示,LG 智能电视在用户往往不知情的情况下进行了大规模的数据采集。报告指出,这些设备会扫描本地 Wi-Fi 网络以识别周边硬件、记录位置信息,并利用自动内容识别(ACR)技术追踪用户观看的所有内容,无论输入源为何。 最令人担忧的发现是,LG 电视即便在待机模式下也会录制麦克风音频。如果电视处于离线状态,这些音频文件会先存储在本地,并在恢复连接后立即上传至 LG Ad Solutions。这种数据采集做法反映了行业内的普遍趋势,其他制造商也同样采用 ACR 技术来监控消费者的习惯。 在此之前,LG 显示器曾被曝出自动安装软件以推送弹窗广告并追踪设备数据,引发了相关争议。这些持续不断的隐私问题凸显了智能电视制造商激进的数据收集模式,也促使人们重新审视企业在家居环境中的监控边界。

最近的一场 Hacker News 讨论凸显了用户对于 LG 智能电视即使在离线或待机状态下也涉嫌收集数据的日益担忧。 评论者对“智能”电视的隐私保护表示深度怀疑,认为仅断开 Wi-Fi 可能并不足够。用户担心电视可能会通过网状网络(如 Amazon Sidewalk)或蜂窝调制解调器建立连接;另一些人则警告说,保留在局域网内的设备仍然可以扫描并盘点其他联网硬件,并在连接可用时向服务器“回传”数据。 提出的解决方案各不相同:有人建议使用 Apple TV 等专用流媒体盒子,而另一些人则建议进行严格的防火墙级阻断,而不是使用 Pi-hole 等工具进行简单的 DNS 过滤。多位参与者主张购买商用显示器以彻底规避消费级智能功能,其中一位用户提议为值得信赖、注重隐私的硬件设立“DUMB”(不上传我的位数据)认证。目前的共识是,制造商在公开地通过货币化观看数据来获取利益,消费者只能通过寻找技术手段来夺回隐私控制权。
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原文

LG smart TVs are almost constantly logging and uploading data about owners and their homes, even when offline or on standby mode, according to a new report from YouTube channel Gamers Nexus. The company’s TV sets scan Wi-Fi networks for nearby devices, record audio logs through their microphones, and use audio and video sampling to recognize exactly what you’re watching from across the TV inputs.

Gamers Nexus partnered with fellow YouTubers Level1Techs and independent security researchers for the investigation, which involved testing retail LG OLEDs. Packet captures showed the TVs scanning the local area network for nearby hardware like phones or smartwatches, as well as logging location data and details of nearby Wi-Fi networks, and feeding the information back to LG Ad Solutions. Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored.

The final piece of the puzzle is Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), tech that uses audio and video data to figure out what you’re actually watching, examining the apps you use through the TV’s own smart interface and the content you connect via HDMI and other ports. ACR isn’t just an LG issue though: A new video from RTINGS digs into how ACR is used by almost every smart TV manufacturer to figure out what you watch.

This isn’t LG’s first brush with Gamers Nexus. In July this year, the channel flagged that some LG monitors were automatically installing an app that collected device data and ran pop-up ads for LG’s other apps and even McAfee antivirus. The public pressure from that video prompted an intervention from Microsoft, and ultimately led to LG disabling the pop-up ads.

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