2026-10-21 00:46 UTC
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@radiofreebc@lemmy.world 2026-10-21 02:21
They were called “screens”. I don’t have a smart tv…i have a kick ass dumb tv that works just fine.
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@aviationeast@lemmy.world 2026-10-21 01:38
Still is in my house. TVs are separate from streaming devices. No remote or speaker has a mic in it. Phones and laptops have mic and video permissions off if not in use. Do I expect someone is listening? Yes but they are at the nation state level and ain’t willing to risk their tools for less than national level threats.
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@Varesti@lemmy.zip 2026-10-21 03:50
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@unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-21 07:15
We have known ever since snowden, but people kinda just pretended that never happened.
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@svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-21 07:26
Um, actually, in 1984 the government spies on you through your TV, but in real life, corporations spy on you through your TV and the government intercepts the internet traffic and/or asks the corporations for the data, so it’s obviously completely different.
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@sp3ctre@feddit.org 2026-10-21 08:09
It’s really that bad. Just ordered a smart TV knowingly that it’s going to spy on me. I will never connect it to the internet and just to be sure, I will try to disable the microphones manually. At this point I believe that it will still try to connect to open wifi’s in my neighbourhood. Can’t be paranoid enough these days.
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@Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-21 08:35
It’s rare but sometimes I do wonder with some patients. It’s obviously somewhat unarguable if it’s just the more ideological “they’re listening to all of us and generally invading our privacy” because usually then I’m just like “TRUTH but also please either put the pants back on or go to your room.” But then there’ll be a woman who says the voices telling her to wash her hands until she bleeds is a symptom of the black magic her ex is using to track her and am like girl u crazy but also honey all they need is a fuckin’ airtag.