South Korea’s LG Electronics said Friday it would make correct a “bug” on some of its smart TVs after admitting they send information about viewers back to the company without their permission.<\/p>\n
The world’s second largest TV maker launched an investigation after UK-based IT consultant Jason Huntley raised the issue in a blog.<\/p>\n
He said LG continued to collect information on which channel he was watching even after he turned off the data collection feature.<\/p>\n
“We have found some of our smart TVs continue to transmit viewing information even when the function is turned off by the viewer,” a spokesman said. “We are preparing a firmware update to roll out soon that will correct this bug.”<\/p>\n
Huntley welcomed move as the “positive step”.<\/p>\n
LG’s rival Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest TV maker, said its products had not experienced such a problem.<\/p>\n
“Samsung takes all concerns regarding consumer privacy and data security very seriously,” it said.<\/p>\n
“All of our smart TVs include industry-standard security safeguards and practices to secure consumers’ personal information and prevent its unauthorized collection or use,” Samsung said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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