Your smart TV may be watching you back: NEW report reveals troubling details

The useful part

According to a recent investigation by Gamers Nexus, LG smart TVs can allegedly continue communicating with external servers even when powered down. "If you have an Apple TV set-top box, that's not enough to protect your privacy if you have an LG TV," BlazeTV host Pat Gray says on "Pat Gray Unleashed." "You must unplug the ethernet. "These also use a technology referred to as automatic content recognition or ACR.

How it works

• So they're not satisfied with knowing the name of the show or the channel you're watching," Gray says.
• While the collection of usage data is one thing, the researcher uncovered many different areas where the tested TVs captured data that probed a little too deep into your private life," he continues.
• So then these are sent to LG ad solutions for marketing purposes." "But it gets worse.
• "We've got our TVs, our phones, our computers, our iPads, our cars, Flock camera, satellites, your refrigerator," he says.
• "It's all monitoring us, and the problem is, we're so comfortable with these devices n...

Details worth keeping

If you own an LG smart TV, there's something you need to know: It could be spying on you — even when it is turned off. Tell it to forget your Wi-Fi information completely," he adds.