Smart TVs have raised privacy concerns for years, especially over how much information they collect about what we watch. Now, a reverse engineer has made some troubling allegations about Samsung’s smart TVs, including one suggesting that models without built-in microphones could potentially use microphones in connected devices to listen to their surroundings.
The researcher, who goes by log4j on X, claims Samsung TVs can search for microphones in connected soundbars and Bluetooth devices and use them to collect audio, which is allegedly reported back to Samsung. However, the researcher hasn’t publicly demonstrated that Samsung TVs record audio through these external microphones or transmit it without users’ knowledge.
