These “Smart TV’s” report every time you change the channel.
Is this what you signed up for?

LG’s Smart TVs have reportedly been logging details of owner viewing habits even after users disable data collection in the settings menu. The alarming discovery was made by one user, who found that even after he turned off an option that enables “collection of watching info,” the Smart TV still phoned home to a non-functional URL with specifics on channels he’d been watching and even filenames of movies stored on an attached USB drive. “I decided to do some traffic analysis to see what was being sent,” he writes. “It turns out that viewing information appears to be being sent regardless of whether this option is set to on or off.”
Read more: http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/19/5123900/lg-tvs-logging-viewing-habits-regardless-of-privacy-settings
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