AI News Free Apps on Samsung and LG Smart TVs Secretly Turning Your Devices Into AI Proxies

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Free apps available on Samsung, LG, Roku, and other major smart TV platforms have been quietly enrolling millions of living room devices into a commercial residential proxy network used to scrape web data for AI training all through a consent dialog buried in a TV remote’s arrow-key navigation, according to new research from Include Security.

The culprit is an SDK developed by Bright Data, a Tel Aviv-based data-collection company that markets what it calls the world’s largest residential proxy network, claiming 150M+ IP addresses sourced via embedded software in partner apps.

When installed, the SDK silently transforms a user’s connected TV (CTV) or mobile device into an exit node, routing paying customers’ web-scraping traffic through the user’s home internet connection.

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Free Apps on Samsung and LG Smart TVs Secretly Turning Your Devices Into AI Proxies

Free apps available on Samsung, LG, Roku, and other major smart TV platforms have been quietly enrolling millions of living room devices into a commercial residential proxy network used to scrape web data for AI training all through a consent dialog buried in a TV remote's arrow-key navigation

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