Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads — 'Finally found a company that truly listens to its customers,' says hacker
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From tracking skipped ads to using connected soundbars as makeshift microphones

A hacker reverse-engineered his own Samsung TV and found alarming spying activity, including code that used connected devices’ microphones to listen to users.

  • nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    15 hours ago

    I blockeed my TVs from the internet, jellyfin only. My Sony hid all apps after 2 weeks offline. What an asshole move. Changed the launcher to fix that.

      • nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        14 hours ago

        I guess the assumption is ‘TV has internet’ and I rendered this wrong.but you might be right.

        TV won’t show me any ads either way. At least.

        • IceFoxX@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Neither of those things matters anyway.

          1. uXDT was designed for cross-device tracking even before the era of smart TVs.
          2. Surreptitious advertising also occurs in movies, etc. so what would stop them from integrating ultrasound into movies, etc., as well?
          3. For cross-device tracking, it’s enough for just one device to have an internet connection, which doesn’t even have to be constant.

          But there are also methods such as NILM (Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring)… where the electricity provider could track devices and their fluctuations, etc. It analyzes a household’s electricity consumption and attempts to identify individual devices based on their consumption patterns.