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If you have an LG TV, ACR tracking is ON BY DEFAULT and you need to turn it off manually. It is well hidden, in settings, "Additional Settings", "Live Plus" nee
by jwr 2y ago
If you have an LG TV, ACR tracking is ON BY DEFAULT and you need to turn it off manually. It is well hidden, in settings, "Additional Settings", "Live Plus" needs to be switched off.
It is mind-boggling that there is no uproar over this. Of course, if the EU were to make a fuss, Americans would be all screaming "it's over-regulating!".
- burnerthrow008 2y agoNone of the major TV manufacturers is based in the US, so I guess we won't have to worry about the EU regulating ACR, will we? Apropos of nothing, what other country besides the US has a law that specifically prohibits giving a bribe to a foreign government?
- exe34 2y agothe UK
- swores 2y agoUK only allows bribes (sorry, I meant to write "freebies") for domestic politicians, not foreign ones. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/28/mps-have-declared-more-than-6m-in-freebies-since-2010-analysis-shows https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/28/mps-have-de...
- exe34 2y agodonations
- ben_w 2y agoNone of Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, or Google are based in the EU; all have faced issues due to operating in the EU. (Off the top of my head: USB-C, GDPR, Digital Services Act, Schrems, and anti-trust fines respectively).
- mmoskal 2y agoI think the GP post meant that EU only wants to regulate tech if it's American.
- petre 2y agoNot really, they're very much pissed about Chinese EVs now but the EC is tooo slooow to act. The Biden administration already hit them with tariffs and they're now considering banning the software that phones home. No need for weather baloons when you have cars with cameras and microphones all over the place.
- jajko 2y agoYou clearly dont know how regulation works, EU pushed many corporation to globally change their arrogant ways, ie apple dropping their proprietary plug, globally. Thats the power of half a billion relatively rich market. The other part is immature basic whataboutism that doesnt deserve a response, I am sure you can do better, and more on topic hopefully.
- stavros 2y agoNever mind about the plug; we get third party app stores!
- bunabhucan 2y ago[Laughs in CIA and Jared Kushner]
- buran77 2y ago> None of the major TV manufacturers is based in the US, so I guess we won't have to worry about the EU regulating The EU tries to regulate things that get too dangerous to its citizens. The important part though is enforcement which due to limited resources will inherently focus on the biggest players, where the impact is greatest. Players don't get bigger than US based big-tech. It's not unreasonable at all once you think about it. > what other country besides the US has a law that specifically prohibits giving a bribe to a foreign government? They allow and encourage lobbying which is literally used to the same effect. So it's a bit of a moot point, more like posturing than anything else... Much like some apropos :).
- derf_ 2y ago> Apropos of nothing, what other country besides the US has a law that specifically prohibits giving a bribe to a foreign government? Every member of the OECD (including Japan and South Korea) and 8 more countries besides [0]? At a minimum. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD_Anti-Bribery_Convention#Members https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD_Anti-Bribery_Convention#M...
- fnordpiglet 2y agoMy strategy is I never accept the ToS on the TV. By and large major manufacturers don’t track unless the ToS are accepted after Vizio was caught. I still get firmware patches and can do home automation signals from the TV activity on LG without ever accepting the ToS. YMMV. Periodically after a firmware update it prompts to accept the ToS again otherwise it’s pretty silent. I do not however use any smart tv features. For my prior generation I just never attached them to a network.
- jwr 2y agoI didn't accept them either. That didn't prevent LG from auto-enabling the ACR.
- fnordpiglet 2y agoHow did you observe that it was phoning it home? My network monitoring indicates it’s only checking firmware, but I have 2024 models.
- jwr 2y agoI did not watch the network transmissions, I just noticed that the setting is ON by default.
- meowster 2y agoI hope you never have a guest that accepts the ToS.
- fnordpiglet 2y agoFriends don’t let friends accept TOS.