Few people have the expertise to confirm that the camera was actually disabled when requested, and shall remain disabled-even if, for example, the TV receives a malformed broadcast signal that triggers a buffer overflow. The FBI qualifying the tape-over-camera option with "If you can’t turn off a camera" is just silly. That’s easy to say, but unless you have a Faraday cage, how do you know it’s not on the internet? They have Wifi now, and maybe a neighbor has an open access point-or some ISP-provided access point the manufacturers have purchased access to. There are plenty of fractured entities trying to help (like Consumer Reports’ efforts to integrate an open source privacy and security standard in hardware reviews, or efforts at Princeton to make it clear what devices are actually doing on the network), but in terms of any kind of cohesive solution to the problem, there’s little to nothing on the horizon.įiled Under: fbi, privacy, smart tv, snooping, spying So yeah, the FBI’s tips are great and all, but they don’t really get to the root of the market dysfunction that’s plaguing the IOT space. Even more specifically, they want you to buy their sets with their specific streaming functionality because they want to spy on you and monetize your usage data. More specifically, most TV vendors don’t want to sell you a bare-bones set because they want you to use their streaming services. And product makers are too busy worrying about margins and the next big product launch to spend money to upgrade past sets or improve their privacy and security practices (at least not until there’s another major scandal).Īnd if you’ve shopped for a TV recently, you may have noticed that it’s largely impossible to just buy a “dumb” TV set without all of the “smart” internals. Gadget obsessed consumers are historically oblivious or apathetic to the problem. Government hasn’t done much to pass any meaningful privacy law for the internet era. A Consumer Reports study from last year found that things aren’t really improving in the space. Granted such tips don’t really do much to fix a broken sector where privacy and security remains an afterthought. Confirm what data they collect, how they store that data, and what they do with it.”
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