But don’t worry, the FBI would never spy on you...
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That isn’t a bug, it’s a designed feature. Just ask Samsung.
Be seeing you.
Shocking, how about Alexa? Oh yeah, by the way, NO ONE SAW THIS COMING.
We’ve still got dumb boob tubes.
Don’t wanna spy...er, smart one.
This is why we put clear tape over the camera and never agreed to the T’s and C’s regarding turning on the microphone. i.e. it would be lawsuit time if LG allowed anyone to use our microphone.
Every night, between 10 PM and 7 AM, my Toshiba Smart-TV does a Red-to-Green-to-Red blinking thing...about every 30 to 45 minutes, for 10 seconds. Doesn’t matter if the TV is on, or off.
You think that the Chinese are listening in?
The FIB is too busy protecting congress & politicians to bother with the average schmuck glued to their TeeVees
Dave: Alexa, Is my smart TV spying on me?
Alexa: I’m sorry Dave, I can not answer that.
The news is more than a decade old, and the same FBI called people who said this in the past “conspiracy theorists”. Finally they admit what the rest of world already knew.
Maybe they will tell us next that the grass is really green, the sky is blue and water is really wet?
I guess they wanted to maintain some credibility by admitting this well known fact. Although the credibility train left a long time ago.
Yep. Put black tape over EVERYTHING, or unplug it, or don’t buy it...
Man... this country is absolutely stupid with what they will accept just to have bigger and better TOYS than everyone else they “just can’t live without”... lol
I like the Gibb’s method of turning off electronics.. i.e. pull the plug
I take pause these days before believing anything the FBI reports ... sad to say!
“Smart” anything is surveillance technology, period. Except the cars. Those are for culling the herd.
One of the more memorable moments in recent movies for me was in one of the Edward Snowden movies, where Snowden finds out that the NSA can use the cameras on people’s computer monitors to spy on them. I remember hearing that years ago and thinking it was a crazy paranoid myth.
DUH! Is there anything more useless than the current FBI?
MIGHT be?
How about *certainly is*???
In America television watches you.
I bought a fairly dumb tv. No camera or microphone. I do have an Andriod based streaming box that has a microphone on the remote. I keep the microphone turned off in Settings, for what that’s worth. I kill power to the TV and Box by turning off a strip plug when we’re not using it. I’m wanting to build my own linux+kodi based streaming box one of these days. Might do android powered box but it would be a dev droid version not a google tainted version.