"We Could Get Sued for This" - GamersNexus goes deep with the privacy violations and overreach of modern consumer electronics, including Smart TVs, other devices, and how they record your voice.
We Could Get Sued for This
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Carlos Solís
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plateee
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plateee
in reply to Carlos Solís • • •Are you posting from Lemmy? That link also is incomplete.
By incomplete, I mean the link is missing some text and it's being replaced by "...".
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mofongo
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www.youtube.compwalker
in reply to plateee • • •Danitos
in reply to plateee • • •In my case it is complete, it simply was turned into a ref. In Markdown, you can create a link that will display a blue text but refer you to an actual link:
Example
FiniteBanjo
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in reply to FiniteBanjo • • •FiniteBanjo
in reply to Kairos • • •Bit convoluted but the gist of it is this:
as exciting as [thing], which is to say
[very]thing = very
As exciting as very
Very exciting
English is kind of scuffed in that the order of words only sounds correct or not based on how often you've heard it said that way before.
Kairos
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in reply to DeadEndLink • • •I have a "smart" TV. It wouldn't let me get past setup until I put it on wifi, so I spun up a hotspot, then immediately killed it and just plugged in a micro PC running Linux to the HDMI port.
Occasionally, I'll sit on the remote and a pop up happens saying I'll need to connect to the Internet for to work, but that's about it.
JustEnoughDucks
in reply to plateee • • •If you watch the video, (oh boy was it long but informative) it likely is still spying on you rampantly and using neighbors as hotspot points to send the data.
Unlike smartphones, they are plugged in so they can just run speech to text (and the TVs that the op had could hear 20m away in other rooms with the mic array) forever. If you sell the TV or something and it ever connects to the internet again, it will likely dump all of that plaintext data corresponding to your physical location.
adarza
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in reply to ProdigalFrog • • •Appreciate their taking the time to do the real research work, but just skimming through the video and disappointed by the amount of self advertising that is going on in it. To the point that I am not even interested in watching what they have to say.
Here is the Gemini summary:
`This video, titled "We Could Get Sued for This," serves as an introduction to a new investigative series by Gamers Nexus titled Data Dragnet. The series aims to explore modern privacy violations, data overreach by consumer electronics companies, and the role of large AI companies in data harvesting.
Key areas of investigation covered in the video:
• Smart TV Surveillance: The team discusses findings from a three-month investigation into LG smart TVs, claiming they found vulnerabilities that allow devices to scan home networks and capture audio input, even when the network is unplugged (0:00 - 12:00).
... Mostrar más• AI Data Harvesting: The investigation extends to how AI companies utilize data centers and automated data exchange practices, highlighting concerns about transparency an
Appreciate their taking the time to do the real research work, but just skimming through the video and disappointed by the amount of self advertising that is going on in it. To the point that I am not even interested in watching what they have to say.
Here is the Gemini summary:
`This video, titled "We Could Get Sued for This," serves as an introduction to a new investigative series by Gamers Nexus titled Data Dragnet. The series aims to explore modern privacy violations, data overreach by consumer electronics companies, and the role of large AI companies in data harvesting.
Key areas of investigation covered in the video:
• Smart TV Surveillance: The team discusses findings from a three-month investigation into LG smart TVs, claiming they found vulnerabilities that allow devices to scan home networks and capture audio input, even when the network is unplugged (0:00 - 12:00).
• AI Data Harvesting: The investigation extends to how AI companies utilize data centers and automated data exchange practices, highlighting concerns about transparency and consumer control (2:22 - 5:20).
• Public Surveillance: The team is also investigating the rollout of Flock automated license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras in various towns, citing concerns about data security and government ties (3:36 - 4:40, 15:30 - 16:40).
• Right to Ownership: The project emphasizes a return to the "enthusiast spirit" of owning one's hardware, with upcoming content planned on DIY routers, VPNs, and self-hosted cloud storage to help users take back control of their data (12:12 - 15:30).
Call to Action:
To support these investigations and the high costs of hardware testing, travel, and production, Gamers Nexus has launched a Kickstarter-style campaign via their website. The campaign helps f `
chemical_cutthroat
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in reply to passingmagic • • •Using gemini summary as a source? Really?
I think we've all used AI enough to see how much it hallucinates with its main purpose being generating content, and not accuracy to not fully trust it to use it as a source.
TheTechnician27
in reply to passingmagic • • •Here's my summary:
Keep your spam to yourself, develop an attention span beyond that of a six-year-old, go be worthless somewhere else, and while you're there, go fuck yourself.
hirihit640
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in reply to TheTechnician27 • • •jesus dude. im with you in sentiment but that was the most hurtful and rude way to express it.
edit: on a three day old account! dude apologize!
TheTechnician27
in reply to BussyGyatt • • •I would, but I don't want to waste the energy telling Gemini to write up a fake apology.
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SaveTheTuaHawk
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in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • • •JustEnoughDucks
in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • • •Well... No. And opamp output is fully different than an opamp input. They aren't reversible.
The electronics would have to be specially designed to be a transceiver instead of just a speaker output (I mean, they definitely can do it, it just is more work and more cost)
It would be 10x cheaper just to put a microphone in it.
frank
in reply to ProdigalFrog • • •I have a newish TCL that runs android's TV OS and I've never connected it to a network and it never has bothered me again about connecting. I am sure it's recording our convos but it isn't uploading them at least.
I did scramble a few settings like a BS static IP, a BS DNS, gateway, etc.
SaveTheTuaHawk
in reply to ProdigalFrog • • •A bit click baity. They won't get sued.
I have some very specific examples where I can prove MS teams is scraping conversations and selling data. Twice I've had meeting about very unusual specific chemical compounds where I was then solicited by synthesis companies within 48hrs.
Don't discuss novel IP on Teams.
But the TV market is highly competitive and they are all basically the same thing (sorry nerds). You would think a truly disconnected TV would be a sales feature at this point. Unless the TV business is not actually about selling you a TV.
AngryCommieKender
in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • • •There's a bunch of products that clearly aren't selling to consumers anymore. Cars were the first one I noticed, about 15-20 years ago. When I was growing up, cars came in an absolute rainbow of colors. Ever since the early '00s, all the colors have disappeared, except corpo friendly colors like white, grey, gold, silver, tan, black, and the occasional blue or red. Almost no green, orange, or yellow cars even exist anymore. The car manufacturers don't care about us consumers buying a single car. They'd rather sell a fleet at a loss of profit per unit, but so many units they don't care.
The same thing is happening to electronics, TV's, and to a certain extent, housing. If you want a "dumb TV," search for a "commercial display panel." You'll pay like 3 times more, but those don't have the intrusive data collection crap.
Hugh
in reply to AngryCommieKender • • •You can also buy computer monitors up to about 32" to use as a TV. Above 32" all the OLED displays seem to be curved or ultra wide.
Also projectors don't tend to have smart features.
Telorand
in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • • •Because my company forces us to use it, and because I know they're both watching every conversation and believe it's kept only within the company, I feel no compunction to keep company secrets off of there.
They had Mattermost set up and working well, but somebody in the C-suite got FOMO.
HubertManne
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