A United Kingdom blogger found his smart TV (intelligent television) Korea brands LG does not knowingly record purchases of TV shows. This latter function allows the manufacturer to look on the collected data to adapt the advertising program for consumers. For example, Blogger DoctorBeet found that when watching television channel BBC News, information will be sent to LG.
To make matters worse. IT developer checks by Korea company information collected in the list, find personally file the USB interface name insisted that he had inserted into his TV, watching them on the big screen. "My wife shocked to watch our child's name, because we saw a video shot on Christmas day we are on TV" is not worthy of it.
Embarrassing of LG
Bloggers, please contact customer service LG. Meanwhile, the story on the Web, highlighting the media pressure on manufacturers. It has finally admitted failure. Official confirmed that the company collects data from users without their knowledge, but said the process in question is designed to improve the relevance of recommendation engines and not for advertising purposes, and collection of data, and not on the server, there is no way to store numeric fields said website.
The Group also reported that never collect personal or confidential information, but anonymous data. With regard to external media (such as USB memory sticks or external hard drives, the collected data helps to improve LG's new features, can be retrofitted on the smart TV.
LG electronics company has sent a letter to the user. She regrets is "for any inconvenience this may have caused the report and continue to work to meet requirements and expectations of their customers."
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