Title: In IT circles I&#x27;ve noticed that whenever there&#x27;s any discussion around Smart TVs, someone will usually say they buy a Monitor or Digital Signage TV instead as they don&#x27;t have smart features.<p>This would be to avoid adverts, viewing habit tracking via content ID tracking or just running software without security updates on your network.<p>And inevitably someone will say that they&#x27;d heard that Smart TVs will connect to unsecured WiFi networks in proximity and start uploading your data.<p>This seems like something worth reporting to regulatory authorities at least. And also would be quite interesting to understand how it works.<p>But I&#x27;ve never heard of any specifics.
Like what brand does this? What data is it trying to send?<p>It&#x27;s easy to spoof a public hotspot and then at least identify what domains it tries to connect to.<p>Failing that there might be information gleaned from wireshark.
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