Is Your TV Spying on You? Yes, and Here’s How to Fix It
Tech > Home Entertainment > TVs Is Your TV Spying on You? Yes, and Here’s How to Fix It Your TV is almost certainly “spying” on you with microphones, automatic content recognition and more. That’s pretty bad — and it’s not even the worst part.
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- ▪Yes, and Here’s How to Fix It Your TV is almost certainly “spying” on you with microphones, automatic content recognition and more.
- ▪That’s pretty bad — and it’s not even the worst part.
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Tech > Home Entertainment > TVs Is Your TV Spying on You? Yes, and Here’s How to Fix It Your TV is almost certainly “spying” on you with microphones, automatic content recognition and more. That’s pretty bad — and it’s not even the worst part. Geoffrey Morrison Contributor Geoffrey Morrison is a writer/photographer about tech and travel for CNET, The New York Times, and other web and print publications.… Read full bio Geoffrey Morrison Contributor Read full bio September 19, 2026, 7:00 am ET 5 min read moodboard/Getty Images Recently, a viral video suggested that LG TVs were “spying” on their users; LG, of course, denied these claims. The alarms raised by the video’s researchers — GamersNexus — were more than enough to draw the attention of anyone concerned with privacy.
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