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In this video, we break down the investigation showing LG TVs scanning local home networks, tracking other connected devices like phones and smartwatches, recording audio, and using Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to track what you watch across external inputs like HDMI. We also look at LG's official response, regulatory action from the state of Texas, and the exact settings you need to check right now to protect your privacy.
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00:00Does the CIA listen through our phones and laptop cameras?
00:04Yes. I hate to say it.
00:05There was a dramatic leak in 2017
00:10that the CIA came to call the Vault 7 disclosures.
00:14Gigabytes worth of documents leaked by a CIA technology engineer.
00:21What he told us was that the CIA can intercept anything from anyone, number one.
00:28Number two, they can remotely take control of your car through the car's embedded computer.
00:35To do what?
00:37To make you drive off a bridge, into a tree, to make you kill yourself and make it look like
00:43an accident.
00:45They can take over your smart television and turn the speaker into a microphone
00:52so that they can listen to what's being said in the room even when the TV is turned off.
00:57God knows what else they can do that hasn't been leaked.
01:02Active listening that now has verified that, yes, they are listening to us.
01:06Oh, you're not crazy.
01:07Your phone did hear you, and that's why you're getting all those ads
01:10for something you brought up in a private conversation.
01:13A method of gathering consumer data called active listening is just as bad as it sounds,
01:18and word's gotten out that a massive media company
01:20is actively selling your voice data to whoever wants it.
01:24Cox Media Group owns 13 news stations, 50 radio stations, and 35 newspapers and local markets
01:30all over the United States.
01:31And if you're in one of their demos, there's a non-zero chance they're also keeping your
01:35car stations on file.
01:37They specifically mention that saying phrases like,
01:39the car lease ends in a month, we need a plan,
01:42this AC's on its last leg,
01:44and we need a better mortgage rate,
01:46is useful for them to set up ad campaigns on behalf of other businesses.
01:49And if you're still skeptical, here's an actual pitch deck from CMG on active listening.
01:55They're able to pinpoint down to a 10-mile radius anyone who's talked about a product or service,
02:00and then push ads to those people through pretty much any digital means you can imagine.
02:04The kicker is that they name-drop Google, Amazon, and Facebook as their official partners,
02:08which, if true, means all those stories about Google Homes and Amazon Echoes
02:12not actually eavesdropping on us is just a load of...
02:16Yeah, it's been confirmed, ladies and gentlemen.
02:19That time when you had a discussion about that random product,
02:23and then the next day you got an ad for it,
02:27it was listening.
02:28I got this video from Gamers Nexus.
02:32Shout out to them.
02:33Matter of fact, here, I'm going to throw them up on the screen.
02:37Gamers Nexus, right there on your screen.
02:39Make sure you go give them a follow.
02:41Let them know I sent you.
02:42Subscribe to their channel.
02:43This is part of a two-hour video that they put together.
02:50Very comprehensive, very in detail.
02:52But I want to show you guys just a small segment of it,
02:56especially since it's over two hours long,
02:58that I think you guys are really going to be interested in
03:01because LG, their TVs listen to you too,
03:04even if it's not connected to the internet.
03:08Check it out.
03:09LG TVs are able to be utilized as eavesdropping listening devices,
03:13in part because of the advertising functionality that's built into them.
03:16We were able to retrieve plain text transcripts of voice conversations
03:20and inputs from the TV.
03:21Utilize the TV to record from a webcam and from a microphone
03:25while the TV appeared to be off.
03:27And it was clean captured too, bud.
03:30All right, so the screen appears to be off right now.
03:32Currently, Wendell and I are in a order to discuss our new...
03:35Yikes.
03:36We were even able to capture microphone audio
03:38while the TV was unplugged from the network.
03:40This LG G5 TV has a microphone connected to it,
03:43and right now it's listening to me and saving the information.
03:46In fact, we can even unplug the network.
03:50And it's still listening to me.
03:53And what I'm saying is being stored by someone with remote access to the TV.
03:58And then we were able to exfiltrate that recording via vulnerabilities
04:01after the user reconnected the network.
04:04In fact, we can even unplug the network.
04:08And it's still listening to me.
04:10No network.
04:11What I'm saying is being stored by someone with remote access to the TV.
04:15But that requires an adversary, which sounds scary.
04:18What we think is scarier is LG itself.
04:20LG's first-party profit-seeking functionality pries deep into your private life.
04:24The TV crawled our entire network and found dozens of unrelated devices,
04:27including smartwatches and phones of our staff
04:30who didn't even know we were working on this,
04:31which might explain how LG ads can claim
04:34it knows about 363 million addressable secondary devices in the U.S.,
04:37despite claiming a smaller 216 million smart TVs sold worldwide.
04:41And we don't think this is an innocent Chromecast-connected device lookup,
04:44considering LG itself admits
04:46We know who's in the LG household.
04:48We know which devices are there.
04:50We know how to extend that reach into mobile.
04:53And they use secondary devices and political targeting.
04:55We also found through Wireshark and Inspecting Firmware
04:58that LG TVs are capable of identifying your IP address,
05:00geographic location, name of every Wi-Fi network in the vicinity,
05:03its signal strength, channel numbers of neighboring Wi-Fi networks in range,
05:06and other devices on the network,
05:07even if not connected to the TV in any way,
05:10and the internal IP address of other devices on the network,
05:13alongside others.
05:14In fact, the data that we collected through Wireshark shown here
05:16is such an egregious invasion of privacy
05:18that we can't even show you it,
05:20because every line has something that we don't want to put out there.
05:25And this is the TV's native functionality.
05:28This didn't require vulnerabilities.
05:30Security researchers we worked with for this investigation
05:32also discovered several additional vulnerabilities
05:35that are going through the responsible disclosures period right now.
05:38So we can't fully detail them yet,
05:40but the researchers have recommended
05:42disconnecting any LG smart TVs from any network.
05:47Ideally, you don't own thousands of dollars of LG TVs.
05:53Maybe if they're unplugged or physically destroyed, it's okay.
05:58But this is because there's some concerning vulnerabilities,
06:04like, for example, remote code execution vulnerabilities,
06:08where an attacker could manipulate what your TV does, like this.
06:21Good night, LG.
06:25That's LG calling me right now.
06:29The listening device capability is partly because of ACR,
06:33a function that leads LG to tell its advertising partners
06:36that it, quote, owns the living room, end quote, and your TV.
06:40Here's LG AdSolutions President Sergey Mata
06:43and also the Head of Research and Development for LG AdSolutions, Justin Fromm.
06:48In the fact that we have the glass, we own the glass, we own the TV.
06:51Because, you know, we own the glass and we have first-party ACR data,
06:58automated content recognition data,
07:00but we understand everything that hits the screen.
07:02We own the glass.
07:05I paid $2,400 for this particular glass that arrived curved on one side,
07:13but I guess I don't own it.
07:15Serge Mata, the first man who said LG owns the glass,
07:19is the president of LG AdSolutions,
07:21which sells the data harvested from your television to partners.
07:25LG owns LG AdSolutions, which is a private company,
07:29and that's a good thing,
07:30because Mata is legally banned by the SEC from running a public company
07:35after settling charges relating to a fraudulent scheme.
07:39Now, he's in charge of the data collected from your TV.
07:42Automated content recognition can be audio or video data,
07:45including screenshots,
07:47that's converted into a fingerprint and transmitted back to servers.
07:51In this case, those servers are LG servers for its LG AdSolutions company.
07:57So even though we paid $3,000 for some of these really nice TVs
08:01with multiple embedded microphones and webcam accessory options,
08:06some of these TV companies are now making more margin dollars from targeted ads
08:11than they are from selling the actual TV hardware.
08:17Bingo.
08:18It all is about the dollars and cents.
08:22How can they squeeze more money out of us?
08:26And once again, shout out to Gamers Nexus for that.
08:29You guys got to see a very small tidbit of the information that he had in that video.
08:36So definitely go and check it out.
08:37Once again, that is a video that is over two hours long,
08:40and you got to see this bunch of it.
08:43So just imagine what else is in that video.
08:46You'll be shocked.
08:47All right.
08:47You'll be shocked.
08:48But yeah, that is that is absolutely wild stuff to think that even when a TV appears to be off,
08:56it's disconnected from the Internet.
08:59The moment that it gets any type of connection, as a matter of fact, I don't even think he reconnected
09:05it.
09:06So I take that back.
09:09The moment that you go into that TV, even when it seems off, even when it's disconnected from the Internet,
09:15you can still play back exactly what you said.
09:20Yeah.
09:21So that time that you mentioned the product and then the next day you got an ad for it.
09:27Yep.
09:27Might have been your TV.
09:28Might have been your TV.
09:31And LG isn't the only one.
09:34Vizio's in on it, too.
09:36If you are wondering why the new Vizio TVs at Walmart are so cheap, I'm going to tell you.
09:42Walmart is now being exposed for selling certain TVs at a loss,
09:46so they can force customers into mandatory Walmart accounts that activate hidden surveillance,
09:51turning every screen into a powerful tracking device that enables relentless targeted advertising.
09:57The Vizio smart TVs as of early 2026 require a Walmart account to activate and use smart features.
10:05The login is mandatory for setting up the streaming apps.
10:07And yeah, it does have technology that tracks and then sends you advertisement and things like that.
10:13Did you realize that this TV right here is a Walmart tracking device to track you at home?
10:18Walmart bought Vizio television.
10:20When they did that, they acquired millions of people's data.
10:23And more importantly than just the TV itself, they acquired the data system.
10:28They bought SmartCast and the data advertising platform that was owned by Vizio.
10:33So here's how it works.
10:34You pay $598 for the TV.
10:37You get it home.
10:38You unbox it.
10:39You plug it in.
10:40And you realize you can't operate it without a Walmart account.
10:43Actually, it says right here that a Vizio account is required for smart TV.
10:48And that's more than deceptive labeling.
10:50That's a straight up lie.
10:51You'll be immediately redirected to set up a Walmart account.
10:54And here's the sinister part.
10:56Like I said before, it wasn't about buying the physical TVs.
11:00It was about buying SmartCast.
11:02Any Vizio televisions that have been manufactured in 2026 require a Walmart account.
11:08And look at the deceptive pricing scheme.
11:11$238 for the TCL 50 inch and $178 for the Vizio.
11:16SmartCast is the operating system that lives inside the TV.
11:19It runs all your apps like Netflix and YouTube.
11:22It controls your home screen.
11:23And most importantly, the ad data system.
11:26What it does is detect what you're watching even from cable boxes, game consoles, or DVDs.
11:31And your cell phone connected to the Walmart app.
11:35Now they will tie in with you and your family watch, search, and buy to relentlessly market you into their
11:42store.
11:43Even more Orwellian than that, linking your TV to your purchases to your location.
11:48Now you are a probable target for personal product pricing adjustments set according to your needs or desperation.
11:54This is called dynamic pricing based on your personal data.
11:58And the fact that a giant corporation like Walmart has laid the foundation for a deceptive controlling system just like
12:05this should have us all outraged.
12:07Does it?
12:10Yeah, that is pretty darn concerning because as you guys saw there towards the end, they're introducing, at least in
12:18some stores, I've never seen it, but you guys can let me know if you've ever seen it.
12:23The dynamic pricing where prices change and who's to say that that pricing doesn't change based on, as you heard
12:31there, your income or your needs.
12:34If you're desperate for it, maybe they'll raise the price of it a little bit to make a couple of
12:38extra bucks or make a couple of extra cents.
12:44And that, you know, in my humble opinion, is very, very concerning.
12:49So, as you guys saw there, we're being listened to.
12:55Okay, when they told us, no, it's not actually listening, it's not, no, it is.
13:00It is.
13:01When people were saying, bro, why am I getting an ad for something that I said yesterday?
13:06Okay, it's because it's listening to TV, your phone, everything around you is actually listening to you.
13:16And that is a major problem.
13:18But, of course, they only do it because we allow them to do it.
13:21So, if we tell them, hey, we're going to stop buying your products, if you want to continually do this,
13:27well, then they'll have to stop.
13:28But that's going to require all of us to work together on that one.
13:32But y'all get in the comments.
13:33Let me know your thoughts and your opinions, as always.
13:36Stay safe out there.
13:37Peace and love.
13:38I'm out.