Can’t wait to see what they broke next week.

I’m not. It still takes screenshots regardless of whether it can access your Internet connection to receive data or send it.

What I’m saying (though I failed at being clear) is that it will take screenshots of anything you put up on the screen (passwords, Internet connection data, Bluetooth device data etc). There was something in one of the videos I linked in another comment about it also collecting data via Bluetooth scanning.

Plus, if the device has ever been connected to a Wi-Fi network and you don’t disable wifi (in settings or physically on the board) there’s a significant possibility it will try to access the open networks around you. If your neighbor has an open guest network? That’s all it needs to continue to upload that information to the cloud.

I also seem to remember LG deliberately limiting 3rd party apps ability to use or create peer to peer networks but I haven’t seen anything about them limiting their own first party apps or OS. I wonder if that’s part of the alarming stuff Gamerz Nexus alluded to in the video when they talked about vulnerabilities that could compromise these TVs.

It was something like 5 am when I wrote my initial comment and I wasn’t fully awake yet. I’m sorry if it came off wrong but I didn’t intend to say that LG TVs were using HDMI connected computer’s Internet connections. Just that they can see anything and everything you can see when you connect and set up that device.

Nobody ever factory resets a TV before they get rid of it. If your trash guy decides to take home the TV you threw away and hook it up to the internet, or if you sell it, the next person might hook it up to the internet.

On Gamer’s Nexus’s video on the subject at 1:20 you’ll hear how they talk about how LG accesses your network data through windows.

I think it’s important to note that I didn’t say in my original comment anything about it using your windows Internet connection to send and receive that data that it collects via microphone or that it may have accessed through your Wi-Fi network if you happened to connect it to that.

I think people assumed (it’s early for me, my bad) that I meant it was transmitting this data that it collected over your windows computer’s Internet connection but that wasn’t what I was intending to claim. When you connect an LG device (Television or Monitor) you agree to allow that device access to your network and they literally say they have full access to your device both in the TOS and in device settings . They gather all the information of every single device connected to your TV. Their apps can “use all system resources” and “access your Internet connection”.

0:47:00 of this video gives more detail about this. https://youtu.be/Q9uefFYe6bM?is=xKJNG-RT_j_2Tw1U

“Sending ACR data to advertising partners thru inputs like HDMI”

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/216-000-000-spy-tvs-the-lg-smart-tv-problem-gamersnexus-investigates.352429/

See the third link and watch the video.

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/21/lg-monitors-are-using-windows-11-feature-to-serve-adware/5275486

https://www.pcmag.com/news/lg-to-remove-unwanted-monitor-pop-ups-following-nudge-from-microsoft

This is literally in the video.

https://www.s-config.com/stopping-a-smart-tv-from-being-used-against-you/

LG’s monitors were downloading malware/ad BS so you can’t trust the monitors either.

There’s a lot of misinformation in the comments here.

1. LG have been caught using the Internet connection of connected devices (like windows computers) to snoop on your network.
2. Because of that, it has access to your network even if you remove the wifi module or do not connect the TV directly to your network.
3. Lobotomizing the TV will not necessarily fix this issue, but I still think it’s a good start. It may be beneficial to switch to a different operating system or just ban the TV from accessing certain parts of the Eco system on your computer.
4. Removing Bluetooth, wifi, and microphone modules will be beneficial in the long run because this will not be the last time a company tries this and it’s not limited to LG. If you are technically inclined or can follow a YouTube video, go for it.

The fabric is to prevent it from accidentally shorting components. The foil is for a faraday cage.

I agree they’d probably be shocked but I honestly don’t know if that would be enough to motivate them to do something about it.

The Flock pushback isn’t about the surveillance for most. It’s a NIMBY problem.

The data center backlash is the same. They don’t want it in their town. They don’t care if it’s regulated or not so long as it’s not them dealing with the consequences (air pollution, imminent domain seizure of property, noise pollution, higher prices for utilities etc).

This is why campaigns against them aren’t national and organized. This is why they haven’t started a lobby group to petition the federal government to do anything to regulate them. They think they can nip this in the bud for their town and it’ll be good enough.

This is demonstrably wrong. It doesn’t have the ability to reason. Every kid is smarter than the extrapolation machine. Because the extrapolation machine doesn’t have smarts.

Either he doesn’t understand the product he’s schilling or he does and he thinks we’re idiots. I’ll let y’all decide which.

This ignores a lot about how automakers were skirting these restrictions in order to sell us larger vehicles and why there are so few sedans and compact cars being sold here these days.

The rollback isn’t the answer because obviously we should be limiting the size of vehicles and closing the loopholes that allow skirting of the law/regulations, but fuel efficiency is forcing smaller cars out and people here are not buying smaller EV’s because of range anxiety.

You absolutely can move the thing without cutting it down. It just happens to be quicker to cut them down and most of the people doing this don’t care about the charge.

But I do take your meaning and to some extent even agree with it.

Reading comprehension doesn’t seem to be your strong suit.

A lawyer worth their salt should absolutely defend you against a vandalism charge if by the lawful definition no vandalism took place.

Not only that, but a lawyer’s job is to make sure the law is followed during legal proceedings. Meaning they are supposed to defend your right to a lawfully handled trial which would include dismissing charges that didn’t fit the crime committed.

This is criminal mischief. That’s a misdemeanor (just like vandalism).

Theft involves legally speaking an “intent to deprive the owner of their property”.

Flock owns the cameras. It’s a subscription model where the municipality actually leases the camera and “retains ownership” of the footage/data the collect.

So by rights the CEO having them dropped off on his property could be considered the same as them being returned to the owner.

You can take that however you want. But vandalism has a specific legal definition.

No. I did not. Relocation of the asset to the owners property means there’s no intent to deprive the owner of said property which means that it’s not theft.

The property has not been defaced, damaged, or destroyed so that means there’s no intent of vandalism. Therefore vandalism did not take place.

What you’re describing is criminal mischief, which I would agree this is.

I made a singular allowance in the case that the pole was cut (which counts as damage), rather than being dug up (which wouldn’t), which you appear to have ignored.

If you don’t like facts, that is a you problem.

You are welcome to kagi or whatever this yourself to see what I’m talking about instead of doubling down.

If you are incapable of that, don’t bother to respond to me.

Nice downvote.

You didn’t look up the legal definition of anything before you posted this nonsense. Have a good day.

Technically not theft. Technically not vandalism.

“Vandalism refers to the intentional destruction or defacement of property”

They relocated the item to its owners house. At best the cutting might be vandalism but you don’t have to cut them down. That just happens to be quicker.

My brother in Christ, the hole in the ozone layer fixed itself because we as a race decided to listen to scientists and ban the shit causing it pretty much world wide. A full on concerted effort backed by science. What the fuck.

Depends on the definition of “work”. There’s plenty of people I had on Facebook that I no longer talk to because I don’t use Facebook. To be clear, my Facebook still exists. It’s there to face tank all the family photos my MIL shares. That’s the only reason the account still exists at all.

That’s technically working for me.

But lots of people are just addicted and Facebook or insta or messenger scratches an itch for them.

They think it will blow over because so many consumers have short memories when it comes to bad press.

The problem is, the press keeps on coming and so people keep being reminded they’re up to no good. Keeping AI in the news cycle isn’t helping them win over people who are increasingly dissatisfied with it.

They can absolutely make it so that disk won’t load the game though so long as you’re connected to the internet.