LG Electronics Inc. has confirmed that some of its smart TVs send information on home viewing habits back to the company without consent and says it will fix the problem, BBC News reports.
The company began investigating after Jason Huntley, a 45-year-old IT consultant in Britain, detailed in his blog how his LG smart TV logged the channels he was watching and sent the data to LG.
He said the company continued to collect which channel he was watching even after he disabled the information collection feature.
"The (LG) server acknowledges the successful receipt of this information back to the TV," he said in an email. The information appeared to be sent to LG unencrypted, he said.
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