Your TV is spying on you, and it's worse than you think.

Link: LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby, by Dominic Preston in The VergeThis is an enormous abuse of trust:“LG smart TVs are almost constantly logging and uploading data about owners and their homes, even when offline or on standby mode. […] Packet captures showed the TVs scanning the local area network for nearby hardware like phones or smartwatches, as well as logging location data and details of nearby Wi-Fi networks, and feeding the information back to LG Ad Solutions. Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored.”Most households invite at least one television into their homes. It’s almost impossible to buy one without smart TV features; because most television shows are streamed over the internet these days, they’re usually online. You could leave the TV offline while…