​It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you 

​It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you 

The LG G5 OLED TV on a wooden home theater credenza, displaying an image of a bird in water.

The TV in your living room knows more about you than you realize. | Photo by John Higgins / The Verge

The TV world has been a pot of controversy thanks to a two-hour-and-15-minute video from Gamers Nexus claiming LG TVs are nefariously spying on everything you do. They can record and store audio even when they seem to be off, track everything you watch, and could even be hacked remotely and turned into covert surveillance devices. LG TV owners, and tech enthusiasts in general, are furious, and a hurried response from LG has done little to calm the situation.

Some of the claims in the video may be based on speculation and assumptions, but many of the core concerns are real and pervasive. While LG was the focus of the video, every TV company …

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