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sanitation@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 days ago

An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping.

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An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping.

blog.includesecurity.com

sanitation@lemmy.today to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 days ago
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The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy - Include Security Research Blog
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In this post we look under the hood of BrightData's SDK and how it turns ordinary consumer TVs into exit nodes of an enormous commercial, residential proxy network leveraged by the AI industry to scrape web data and train language learning models.
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    Once again DO NOT CONNECT YOYR SMART TV TO THE INTERNET

    Do not do it. It’s not smart, it’s a spy device.

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