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Well...... they might not be able or willing to use it directly, but they can do worse... they can sell it to the Chinese....
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Rob Philpott wrote: sending the information back to LG
How?
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http://doctorbeet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-usb-filenames-and.html#comment-form
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Just don't connect it to the internet, or, configure your router to not allow out-going connections to LG. You can use fiddler to find the ip to block.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: don't connect it to the internet
Mine isn't. And the cable is connected through an ancient VCR; the TV stays set to channel 4. 
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Without out-going connections, I probably wouldn't be able to watch Netflix, Youtube, etc. on the TV. Those so-called "smart" functions are a big reason I bought the thing in the first place. Bummer.
-- Will
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MTWill wrote: Without out-going connections, I probably wouldn't be able to watch Netflix, Youtube, etc. on the TV.
You can still do that stuff, but to avoid the snooping that the TV does, you merely have to configure your router to disallow outgoing connections to IPs that aren't Netflix, youtube, etc. It's really not that hard. I bet if you googled it, you could find someone that's already done it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Well it's a little scumbaggy but why is corporate use worse than government use?
They're just corporations, what are they going to do, at worst? Make some money?
Governments can make you disappear.
</tinfoilhat>
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Um.
In the early 90's Pepsi had the 7th biggest fleet of submarines in the world: 17 of the buggers...
(The whole Pepsi Navy was 10 commercial ships, 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate and a destroyer. In theory, these were scrapped, but...you've heard of the Cola Wars?  )
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Anything the corporations collect about you is freely available to anybody claiming to be from "the government" or willing to pay them for it.
To be honest, I'm actually less worried about our (US) government having that information. There's laws that define what they can and can't do that we citizens can influence. If they overstep them, we get to hold their feet to the figurative fire -- the current flap with the NSA is a good example of this.
Corporations, on the other hand, get to define their own behaviors that are backed with the force of (US) law -- they're called policies. They're allowed to change them, users have no influence over what the policies are, and the companies generally give themselves permission to change their policies at any time and without any notification to the users. Worse, users have no resource unless the company has violated its own policy and hasn't gotten around to changing it yet. Corporations with my data are far scarier than governments.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Why would targeted advertising bother people?
Do you want to see ads for stuff that doesn't interest you?
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Did you get rid of that foil hat? (Just didn't expect that reaction from you )
Veni, vidi, caecus
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My 'tin foil hat' response was shown to those who like that kind of humor.
You got the other response.
Turns out CP uses that type of filtering as well.
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All the more reason to stick to something like XBMC 
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So the government spying on you is cool but not a company that makes electronics?
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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The government is spying on you because they want to control you.
The companies are spying on you because they'd rather show a middle aged man a beer commercial featuring the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than an ad for Midol.
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Right, which is why I'm asking the OP why he is so mad about beer ads...
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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Damn right. Who do you think has the real power?
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I'm sure that sort of thing goes on all the time.
I just get my revenge by prancing about naked in front of the built in web cam. I figure the medical expenses they incur for traumatized employees should make us even.
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mind bleach please 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Hah I love it, some poor bastard is being bored to death tracking my viewing information. I think I'll also take up naked dancing, although I may be sued for visual atrocities.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The government spying is fine....they're a bunch of straight up guys, from the makers of The Cold War, death squads in Northern Ireland, IRS persecution, Obamathugcare, mass artificial starvation in Russia and China, the Gulag, the KGB(still called the KGB in Belorus - they have this whole 'retro' vibe going on, wonderful). Everything Hitler did was legal.
Corporations - bad guys that bring you your Apples, TV's, Radios, Cars, HP Slates and Desktops, Hitachi drives, Coca Cola. Yeah, I don't trust them not to want to make money for an instant.
But seriously, ever since Public Private Partnerships were invented in the 90's, the Government is the Corporations, the Corporations are the government. 
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Cell phone as well as telephone companies always know where you are and have a good idea what you're doing. Your average store-bought computer has been spying on you since the mid-1990's when the Internet really got going. TV cable boxes having been reporting on you since the 1980's when cable began. Nielsen ratings for TV began in 1950 practically as soon as television became widespread. Nielsen adapted TV ratings from radio ratings that began in the 1930's and which was adapted from market analysis in the 1920's. This has been happening for about 100 years or more. It should be no surprise that LG has jumped on the bandwagon.
Thus, there is no step too far. There is only the erosion of freedoms which you allow.
Jim Wilson
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If true, that would be an invasion of my privacy. However, my LG TV is stupid and doesn't have an internet connection, so it can't send anything anywhere.
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