> is easy to block network access (never plug ethernet)

Some TVs secretly include a modem and SIM card, to make sure they get your personal data back to their masters.

Every company in the world is coming after your privacy. How far are you willing to defend it?

> Some TVs secretly include a modem and SIM card, to make sure they get your personal data back to their masters.

That’s a pretty wild accusation to make without naming even a single brand or model…

> Every company in the world is coming after your privacy.

This is clearly true though.

I was sure I had seen an example of someone revealing this several years ago, but I can't find the article again, so it's probably misinformation. I'm sorry for repeating it.

There are definitely "spy" TVs modified by state security groups that do this, but that's not what I was claiming.

>Some TVs secretly include a modem and SIM card

Which TVs? This is a major expense for a product with rapidly depreciating costs and intense competition, all to do something illegal/immoral?

I believed this for a time, but now I believe it is an urban legend. Granted a plausible one, and one that might be true in the future... but not true as of yet.

Give us a single make/model that does this.

Really? Which ones?