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Nov 22nd, 2013, 12:02pm  
According to "Broadband TV News",

"A UK ICT consultant – Hull-based Jason Huntley – found by accident that his LG Smart TV was spying on him and sending extensive information about his TV viewing back to the Korean manufacturer.
He found that his TV set has a default setting giving permission to send these data to LG."

This story has since been updated here, where it reports an imminent LG update and "“LG regrets any concerns these reports may have caused and will continue to strive to meet the expectations of all our customers and the public. We hope this update clears up any confusion."
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Reply #1 - Nov 22nd, 2013, 8:27pm  
Just to help an ageing 1960s engineer and later Radio Producer (retired) understand this story could someone who is practised in the dark arts of 'Smart' TVs please explain by what means the information was actually transported back to the parent company?
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Reply #2 - Nov 22nd, 2013, 9:42pm  
According to the article....

"Huntley wrote about how his Smart TV was sending data about which channels were being watched, but also how his TV uploaded information about the contents of devices attached to the TV, such as an external hard drive."

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Reply #3 - Nov 23rd, 2013, 9:59am  
Ah so his TV was in fact a form of computer on line so that he had the choice of sharing his TV operations back to the manufacturer. Now we know how to avoid the problem!
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Reply #4 - Nov 23rd, 2013, 2:49pm  
BBC tech programme "Click" ran this story in its headline sequence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m9ry
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