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Your TV Is Spying On You
(www.ludlowinstitute.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
My ACL says my TV can't talk to the internet.
Solar systems have mobile modems in them to phone home
Cars have mobile modems in them to phone home
Maybe some TVs do too
Nothing a jumper wire can’t fix
TVs are way too inexpensive for manufacturers to pay for modems, service fees, and bandwidth fees to collect this kind of data. They'd spend more paying for that cell connection over the lifetime of the TV than you paid for the product in the first place. Solar systems and cars that cost many tens of thousands of dollars are a completely different ballpark compared to a $500-1000 TV.
Compromised solar systems are in the realm of $500-$1000 for the inverter