answers: What data do LG smart TVs collect from users?
LG smart TVs can capture microphone audio with the screen off and upload data once reconnected to the internet.
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- challenges Automatic Content Recognition uses audio fingerprinting via the TV’s internal audio processor to identify content and does not collect screenshots…
- contradicts Automatic Content Recognition uses audio fingerprinting via the TV’s internal audio processor to identify content and does not collect screenshots…
- supports During bench tests, the TV could capture clean microphone audio while the screen was powered down in standby mode.
- supports Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed alarming findings about how LG’s TVs are logging and uploading data on its…
- supports New testing shows the data collection goes much further than just ACR.
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- LG smart TVs can capture microphone audio with the screen off and upload data once reconnected to the internet.
Tests also showed the sets can capture microphone audio with the screen off — they then upload data once reconnected to the internet.
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Origin: extracted from LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices · 2026-09-11 22:03