LG Denies Tapping Users

SEOUL - South Korean company, LG, ultimately denied reports related wiretapping smart TV user activity data for advertising purposes. The company argued, it was done to provide content recommendations based on user interests.

"LG does not use data from smart TV owners for advertising purposes," said the company in a statement.

"Information such as channels, platforms, TV, and broadcast sources, and so on, which collected personal data is not a smart TV melaluinkan user activity information," said LG.

As is known, a report revealed that the LG smart TV user data is sent to the corporate data center, although the privacy mode is enabled. Responding to the findings, the company promised to issue a firmware update. As reported by Digital Spy, Saturday (23/11/2013).

"A firmware update being prepared for release in the near future to address issues throughout the LG smart TV," says the company.

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