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Modern televisions with smart TV functions can collect and send to headquarters without our knowledge and consent not only data channels that we watch, but also about all of our habits associated with the use of the TV – alerts British blogger who discovered such a mechanism in your TV from LG. Korean company in a press assured that it would investigate the matter, because privacy is a “top priority”.

On the trail of illegal data collection by LG came DoctorBeet British blogger who discovered a strange pattern of your new TV.

LG, like other large companies invested heavily in advertising tailored to your audience – even has a special Company LG Smart AD, which examines the favorite programs that you are watching, as well as our behavior on the Internet (on TVs that are connected to the network) and on the basis of their matches ads in applications of smart TV to the user.

The catch lies in the fact that the collection of data need to approve LG. On the LG TV’s so the “Collection of watching info” or “information data collection”. It is fairly well hidden in the settings, and in addition – the machine activated. We must therefore find it first and – if you do not give consent for the collection of data – turn off the pilot.

So what is the problem? Well that LG collect our data and sends to the control, regardless of whether they consent to the collection of information or not. The blogger is checked by analyzing the data in a special program monitors the transmission of information. It turned out that the LG collects not only data we watched TV channels or smart TV applications, but also such as movies and private photos from holidays, we see the TVs connected to an external USB drive.

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What does the LG? The first instinct company responded quite brazenly. “Dear customer, if you have accepted the conditions of use of this TV, the comments should refer to the store where you bought it” – that more or less looked like an answer from LG. However, when the matter got loud, the Korean TV manufacturer changed the front and announced to conduct an internal investigation into the matter. The company also assured that your privacy is a top priority for the company.