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666 Your Smart TV May Be Crawling the Web for AI

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msmash @ Slashdot · 02/27/2026 09:40 EDT

Your Smart TV May Be Crawling the Web for AI

Bright Data, a company that operates one of the world's largest residential proxy networks, has been running an SDK inside smart TV apps that turns those devices into nodes for web crawling -- collecting data used by AI companies, among other clients -- and most consumers have had no idea it was happening.

The company has published more than 200 first-party apps to LG's app store alone and still lists Samsung's Tizen OS and LG's webOS as supported platforms, though LG says the SDK is "not officially suppo

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