Last week, there was a high-profile case in point. An IT consultant
called Jason Huntley, who lives in a village near Hull, uncovered
evidence that a flat-screen television, which had been sitting in his
living room since the summer, was secretly invading his family’s
privacy.
He began investigating the £400 LG device after noticing that its
home screen appeared to be showing him ‘targeted’ adverts — for cars,
and Knorr stock cubes — based on programmes he’d just been watching.
Huntley decided to monitor information that the so-called smart TV —
which connects to the internet — was sending and receiving. He did this
by using his laptop effectively as a bridge between his television and
the internet receiver, so the laptop was able to show all the data being
sucked out of his set.
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