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LG defends smart-TV features amid audio surveillance allegations - Al Jazeera
Publisher description: Recent accusations against the electronics company have raised new questions about the nonconsensual data it harvests.
NewsAPI | Sep 10, 2026 | Hoda Sherif
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South Korean consumer-electronics company LG has denied allegations that its smart televisions record ambient conversations, listen while on standby and store recordings for later transmission. On Wednesday, the company told Al Jazeera that voice data is only recorded when a user presses and holds the voice button on the TV remote or activates its “Hi LG” wake word, after the user has activated the Far-Field voice recognition feature. “Other than these instances, the TVs do not collect or record ambient conversations,” LG said, adding that voice data is only processed via explicit user commands.
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