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Chinese Smart TV Cancels Partnership With Big Data Firm After Claims It Was Monitoring Households
Epoch Times ^ | 04/30/2021 | Jessica Mao

Posted on 04/30/2021 7:21:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Recently, a mainland Chinese netizen named “v64500” wrote on the online forum “V2EX” that his internet-connected television was scanning electronic devices in his house and uploading the data to a company called “Gozen Data.” The netizen revealed that his television is a mainland Chinese brand called “Skyworth.”

The netizen thought the television was a bit slow and checked its backend service program and “found something called ‘Gozen Data’ and had no idea what it was doing.”

The netizen said the television used the Android system. After studying the data for a while, v64500 found that “this thing [Gozen Data] scans all internet-connected devices in my house every 10 minutes.”

“It sends everything back, including hostname, MAC address, IP, and even network latency. It also scans names of surrounding Wi-Fi SSID and surrounding MAC addresses, and collectively sends them back to the domain name gz-data.com,” the netizen explained.

“That is to say, information including what smart devices there are in the house, whether or not your mobile phone is at home, who is connected to the internet in your house, and what is the name of your neighbor’s Wi-Fi is collected and uploaded to this domain at any time. Are you sure that this is not a spy service???” v64500 asked in the post.

The netizen also conducted a code analysis and uploaded a screenshot of the findings, which showed the Gozen Data service app corresponded to TVAC.apk—a free game app for Android.

“There are a lot of codes in it. One logic is that the ARP scans the local area network and uploads information from all internet-connected devices,” v64500 said.

The post has attracted widespread attention and hot debate among netizens.

Netizen zro said, “I wouldn’t dare to connect this kind of television to the internet, even my own home.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigdata; chatforum; china; communism; redchina; smarttv; surveillance; surveillancestate; telescreen

1 posted on 04/30/2021 7:21:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

just imagine what your smart fridge is telling your smart tv.


2 posted on 04/30/2021 7:25:19 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: SeekAndFind
Netizen zro said, “I wouldn’t dare to connect this kind of television to the internet, even my own home.”

Especially not in your own home! Every supertoy you buy is sending information about you back to it's builders whenever it can.

3 posted on 04/30/2021 7:26:45 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

“working as design - No Fix Needed.” < /case closed >


4 posted on 04/30/2021 7:31:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: dayglored

Ping.


5 posted on 04/30/2021 7:38:07 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SeekAndFind

All CHICOM devices are spy tools. Never connect one to a network.


6 posted on 04/30/2021 7:55:36 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Army Air Corps
Thanks for the ping.

"Hmmm, it's scanning everything in my house and even my neighbor's house. Gee, do ya think it's a spy device?"

D-UH

7 posted on 04/30/2021 8:08:37 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: SeekAndFind

8 posted on 04/30/2021 8:18:22 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Big Brother. To a “T”.


9 posted on 04/30/2021 9:28:15 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Imagine what they could do with a global 5G network!


10 posted on 05/01/2021 4:52:22 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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