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pre 2008 models are your best option, a bunch of privacy violating electronics have been mandated in the US since then. Many of them have confirmed backdoors

if it wasn't for these regulations I think there would be a huge market for "dumb" cars that just have the essentials without a bunch of added stuff. Same goes for TVs, I' love to buy a dumb flat screen TV

at this point seems like corporations are using dystopian sci-fi for ideas and inspiration rather than as something to avoid. Stuff like this a few years ago was literally parody material, now it's actually happening



Nobody is forcing you to plug a smart TV into Internet and no smart TV has the capability to talk to 5G free/marketing channels yet.


Some TVs are known to look for open WiFi networks in order to connect to the internet and send data back home.


Which ones? The vague "Some TVs" screams FUD.

Past conversations about this on HN suggest that this is almost certainly a complete fabrication, not something that has actually been documented.




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