While heise.de praises a TV from LG as the best buy ever, arstechnica tells more of the real story, namely that our TVs now also spy on us. Reminds me of what my grandma said about her parents – they believed they had to dress properly when sitting in front of a TV, because “they” could see us, too…
And while we all were chuckling with our grandma about this, it seems that times have moved on, and while we don’t (yet) have that Orwellian “Big Brother”, we now seem to have many “Little Brothers” in all of these big global tech companies – no matter where they’re from (like in the case of LG and Samsung, South Korea).
And no, switching off both LAN and WLAN from your “smart” TV is no option, since that would cut off all streaming to and from the device as wll, which would mean: no “Mediatheken“, and no more content even from your computer to the TV. So I want my TV to be as dumb as possible; thanks.
Like always, thanks for reading.