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The TV would know where you are by knowing what phone masts are in your area. But if you are in the US then ain't California pushing for tighter data collection
by Crosseye_Jack 7y ago
The TV would know where you are by knowing what phone masts are in your area. But if you are in the US then ain't California pushing for tighter data collection regs?
But I get what your trying to say. Time to spin up a Software Defined Radio and start faking cell towers so your TV thinks it's in the EU :-P
- Scoundreller 7y agoHopefully we can just tap into the serial interface.
- Crosseye_Jack 7y agoA lot of them has started even locking down the serial interface. Hell even the boot logo on most LG TV's these days are signed. EDIT: One thing that "might" work is a repair remote / repair menu. On the LG TV's in my house the repair menus allow you to change things like what HDMI mux the TV is expecting (I can't recall if the WiFi Module was included in such menus, but if it is you could change it to something its isn't and hopefully break connectivity. I'll have to dig out my repair remote and play around in the menus again).
- Scoundreller 7y agoThere’s so many inputs, I’m sure there’s piles of vulnerabilities. IR interface buffer overflows anyone?
- killface 7y agoi've never been so happy to not have a smart tv...
- trekrich 7y agomight is not a smart tv. I will need one sooner or later, so i am going to look at corporate televisions. Like in meeting rooms, and hotels that dont have this smart cack into them. Just a good panel, with honest HDMI ports on them!
- big_chungus 7y agoYep, the other good ones are for "commercial signage displays". No one wants to pay for smart garbage on those, so they're usually just good panels with ports.
- trekrich 7y agoall i want is a good panel with ports!
- phs318u 7y agoNo wonder that even when it’s explained to them, people just shrug their shoulders. If the alternative is to go full guerilla war against your own [0] appliances, no wonder many people just give up. [0] I expect any day now we’ll get “subscription TVs” (as in, the actual hardware). We’re already there with headphones. https://www.channelnews.com.au/nuraphone-launch-subscription-headphone-service/ https://www.channelnews.com.au/nuraphone-launch-subscription...
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- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoRoku does it now... you have to register the 'Roku TV' before using it (even if it's not network connected). TV generates a code, punch it into their network, get counter code. I can totally see a month to month plan for getting a TV (the 50" is $260, so you could do a $20/month and come out ahead after the first year).
- unwiredben 7y agoNo, when setting up the TV, if you choose not to have a network connection, there is no need to link. There wouldn't be a way to link, as the TV can't reach the Roku servers.
- Aeolun 7y agoI saw a subscription PC on the Dell website a few days back.
- jsizzle 7y agoDoesn’t GDPR apply to EU citizens, regardless of geography? I know that at my place of work, I have to get consent from EU citizens to email them, even if we are talking in the US
- gbear605 7y agoLegally it does
- Godel_unicode 7y agoFrom the privacy policy: "If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or Switzerland, with respect to transfers to the U.S. of certain personal information collected in connection with your use of Samsung Smart TVs, Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and its subsidiary Samsung Research America, Inc. are certified under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield frameworks developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the European Commission and Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, respectively, regarding the transfer of certain personal information from the EEA and Switzerland to the U.S."
- mr_toad 7y agoWhich basically means that Samsung pinkie swears that they won’t do anything bad, and the EU is powerless to do anything anyway.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoI don't understand how this works. If you're not in the EU, the EU doesn't have jurisdiction, period. They can say whatever they want but it doesn't mean anything. I'm sure China would love to enforce their laws worldwide too, but it doesn't work that way.
- misnome 7y agoTell that to the US and US tax laws
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