LG Denies Smart TV Spying Claims Amid Surveillance Allegations

In the quiet hum of living rooms across the world, a question older than the internet reasserts itself: who is listening? LG, one of the world's largest television manufacturers, has firmly denied claims that some 216 million of its smart TVs continuously record ambient audio and scan home networks for connected devices. The dispute, surfaced by an independent online investigation, places the company at the center of a deepening tension between the convenience of connected technology and the privacy of domestic life — a tension that regulators, researchers, and ordinary users are no longer wil