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LG SAID TODAY it would make correct a “bug” on some of its smart TVs after admitting it sends information about viewers back to the company without their permission.
The world’s second largest TV maker launched an investigation after UK-based IT consultant Jason Huntley raised the issue in a blog post.
He said LG continued to collect information on which channel he was watching even after he turned off the data collection feature.
“We have found some of our smart TVs continue to transmit viewing information even when the function is turned off by the viewer,” a spokesman said. “We are preparing a firmware update to roll out soon that will correct this bug.”
Huntley welcomed move as the “positive step”.
LG’s rival Samsung, the world’s largest TV maker, said its products had not experienced such a problem.
“Samsung takes all concerns regarding consumer privacy and data security very seriously,” it said.
“All of our smart TVs include industry-standard security safeguards and practices to secure consumers’ personal information and prevent its unauthorized collection or use.”
- © AFP, 2013
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The situation in NI is way worse than we have down here, even the figures in hospitels and ICY are simuler eventhough we have 2.61 more in population.
There have been
32,286 confirmed cases, – that equivalent in the ROI- 84266
6,893 in the last seven days. – that equivalent in the ROI would be 17,991
They are complaining about it, if we had them figures down here we would be all locked in our houses.
@Declan Sweeney: ok yea
@Declan Sweeney: Just to comment, I don’t necessarily think ‘cases’ is a good measure of how well a country is performing. For example, we have exponentially increased our testing rates, which has subsequently led to an increased number in cases. That doesn’t necessarily mean that we are currently losing this covid battle, if anything, its a major improvement.
Better measures of how well a country is responding would be mortality and hospital/ICU numbers
@Bobby: But yet retail is still open! Unbelievable!
@Bobby:
Yess and with NI they have 2 figures for deaths,
DOH says they have had 639 deaths from the viris but that only counts for those who die in hospitels mostly
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\the stats office who deals with in hospitels, home, nursing homes and other places put the amount of deats up to Oct. 9th at 902 cases, so when they release the figures again that would be more than likely alot higher.
Numbers in hospitels and in ICU are both very high taking into consideration that we have 2.61 times the population
Sinn Fein complaining about possibly fines in the South, unwilling to tell people to stay in the North during these unprecedented times
@Michael Keegan:
According to themselves they are 2 different parties, SF in NI and SF in the ROI
God that’s awful and it only accounts for 6 counties yet they’re higher than the Republic. I don’t understand it, unless they’re popping back and forth from England
@Anna Carr: if you think people in NI constantly travelling back and forth to England is the issue then yes, you are correct. You do not understand it.
@Dermy: You obviously don’t know about the secret tunnel we have? Oh oh. This message will self distruct in 3……2…..
This debate should of happened in February.
The reason it didn’t was because of vested interests.
have your say