New SmartTV regulations: Privacy ade!

We had then bought us the TV in a large electronics store. The beautiful design, the functionality and the sound / image quality have been a good experience. The latter we found better only in a Philips TV with red dot design award. But the price / performance ratio has in this television then convinced us. We thought we had made a good purchase decision ...

But we pay almost 900 euros to be forced spied "voluntarily", is a bottomless impudence! Only for the basic function (TV!) Also a cheaper, older model would have been sufficient.

PRIVACY ADE:
Recently, a window opened during operation and informed us that the data protection provision for SmartTV (broadcasts via internet and extra apps / functions via WLAN) have changed. We would have to agree, otherwise we could not continue to use it.

What we read there, has joined us from the stool. All of our user data is recorded, sent to LG "home" and passed on to third parties. After we had agreed to it, we could use no longer functions, except the station selection and teletext! Von wegen easily surf on large screen TV and watch a video on Youtube ...

It is impossible at this TV, turn off the Wi-Fi equipped once. We had to manually our router the IP address of the TV block. Nevertheless, there remains a very uneasy feeling.

We knew that Asian firms privacy so does not really matter. But LG and Samsung are yet brands with a certain positive reputation - at least for us - at least so far.

Watched broadcasts, heard music files, attached devices such as hard drives and USB sticks and their contents, other devices on the wireless network, such as PCs, mobile phones and Internet Radio, surfing habits, used apps, everything should no longer belong to privacy? That sounds like a future horror scenarios of sci-fi novels, but is probably arrived in our presence ...

Elsewhere is - who wants it because - you pay when relinquishing one's data. Be it in the small as in the Payback program, frequent flyer miles-gathering or other market research surveys with raffle.

If we had known what are the plans for the SmartTV, we would all LG (and Samsung!) TV made a big bow.

Hands off!