A series of lawsuits filed by Attorney General Ken Paxton accused top electronic manufacturers of unwanted surveillance…
Are You Watching Your TV? Or Is Your TV Watching You? How to Find Out and Protect Your Privacy…
Some smart TVs may have built-in cameras that can pose a privacy and security risk to your home and Wi-Fi system…
Q&A: How Can I Stop My TV Spying On Me?…
Following today’s publication, by WikiLeaks, of documents exposing the CIA’s secret hacking program – describing tools that can turn a world of increasingly networked, camera- and microphone-equipped devices into eavesdroppers, AP’s Frank Bajak answers the public’s biggest questions. Bajak warns consumers, there’s “not much you can do if you don’t want to sacrifice the benefits […]
And You Thought You Were Enjoying a TV Show in Privacy: Vizio Smart TVs Tracked Viewers Around the Clock Without Consent…
Vizio, one of the world’s biggest makers of Smart TVs, is paying $2.2 million to settle charges that it collected viewing habits from 11 million devices without the knowledge or consent of the people watching them. According to a complaint filed Monday by the US Federal Trade Commission, Internet-connected TVs from Vizio contained ACR—short for […]
Ransomware ‘Flocker’ Capable of Locking Smart TVs…
If a malware affects one of these devices, the said malware may eventually affect the others, too…