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Title: Your Smart TV May Be Crawling the Web for AI

Link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/0...

Bright Data, a company that operates one of the world's largest residential
proxy networks, has been running an SDK inside smart TV apps that turns those
devices into nodes for web crawling -- collecting data used by AI companies,
among other clients -- and most consumers have had no idea it was happening.
The company has published more than 200 first-party apps to LG's app store
alone and still lists Samsung's Tizen OS and LG's webOS as supported
platforms, though LG says the SDK is "not officially supported" and its
operation on webOS "is not guaranteed." Google, Amazon, and Roku have all
since adopted policies restricting or banning background proxy SDKs, and
Bright Data no longer supports those platforms. Several Roku apps still
running the SDK disappeared from the store after a journalist with The Verge
behind this reporting contacted the company.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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