Some smart TVs won’t take no for an answer.
When these same machines don’t get what they’re looking for, they may implement work-arounds in order to pry into a user’s private life.
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One researcher decided to reverse-engineer a Samsung smart TV and allegedly found numerous disturbing features buried in its programming.
Some of the most damning allegations include facial recognition code that placed “bounded boxes” around faces, as seen when using a smartphone, for example.
The researcher — going by Log4j — also revealed what he deemed to be sinister listening habits of the televisions.
While many Samsung smart TVs have a built-in microphone, if it doesn’t, “it will look for connected devices with one, such as a soundbar or a
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