Researchers spent 500 hours and $70,000 and found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, and feeding it to LG's ad arm
Unplug the internet and it saves the files until you plug back in.
LG says its TVs don't record ambient conversations.
Oh! Saw this on HN a few days ago and it didn't land (probably got distracted by Navier-Stokes). The video did land though. Had to watch twice to get that the audio playing back was what the TV itself had recorded.
Would love to see the process (including the r00ting!), the on-device infra/setup and what gets sent where exactly.