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I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off this setting
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Not necessarily. Manufacturers have been known to use ad-hoc networks to find a path back home.
For example your neighbour gets a smart tv and connects to the internet. Now your smart tv connected to your neighbours and phones home.
Any proof of this. First I've heard about it.
It's not this the way Apple tag and findmyphone works?
I thought that was via other iPhone pinging the tag and reporting its last location back. This sounds like the TV using the other TV as a network bridge and then sending data back via it.