Should you trust your smart TV or streaming device? - Help Net Security

Should you trust your smart TV or streaming device? - Help Net Security

“Smart” devices might be handy and offer higher quality services, but users should be aware that everything comes with a price. And we’re not talking here about the price of the actual device, but of the fact that these devices collect device, user and user behavior information and send it to a variety of third-parties.



This information might currently be worthless to users, but it’s worth a lot to companies: it is used to improve and customize services, compile a profile of users’ location and interests, deliver ads that fit those interests, share (or sell) that information with additional third-parties, and so on.


Until privacy legislation and regulation catches up, most of us are left to our own devices and are depending on security and privacy researchers to discover the various potential pitfalls of using specific IoT devices.


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