LG is watching you watch TV

My LG TVs are too old/dumb to fall into this lot, fortunately, but what I want for my next TV is a huge, dumb monitor, and reports like this are why. Gamers Nexus and Level1Techs apparently found LG TVs recording audio with the screen off and storing it for later upload, besides snooping on other devices on the local network. I don’t know how much of this applies to European models (the article doesn’t establish that), but I would very much like someone to check rather than assume GDPR has taken care of it. I’ve been complaining about TVs spying on their owners since 2012, and about the lack of EU scrutiny in 2024 and 2025, so this is getting a little tiresome. The European Commission keeps harping on Apple, and I suspect that has rather a lot to do with it being a much more recognisable brand–going after Apple has immediate political impact, whereas investigating what LG and the other TV manufacturers collect inside people’s homes seems to be nobody’s priority.