A Chinese netizen recently spoke on a social forum, claiming that recently he felt that his home TV was “stuck” and upon checking, he found that the TV had a feature called “hookup data service” that scanned all the devices connected to the Internet in his home every 10 minutes and automatically The article was published, and it sparked a lot of controversy. After the article was published, it sparked heated debate.
The original PO user recently PO article in the “V2EX” forum, he said, because he felt that the TV speed is very slow, open the system to see what features are open, but found the same “hook data service”, so he looked confused. He researched and found that the function scanned his family’s Internet-connected devices every 10 minutes, and even uploaded his host name, road interface card location, IP and other information, as well as network latency time all back to the “gz-data.com” website, and even detected the surrounding wi-fi name, road interface card location
The netizen said that this means that no matter what smart devices he has at home, whether his cell phone is at home, who comes to his house to connect to the Internet, and even the name of the surrounding neighbors wi-fi, the information will be collected and uploaded at any time, he also exclaimed “sure this is not a spy service”?
The netizens at the bottom of the article have left comments saying “this kind of TV my home is afraid to connect to the Internet”, “can uninstall (uninstall)? My home is also this system”, “so do not buy domestic Internet TV (Internet TV), buy do not connect to the network”, “regular user tracking means”, “garbage domestic, just this group of people still blow all day to support domestic, hate to give you panties stripped”, “my home Xiaomi router, has been requesting API.miwifi.com domain name, 3 seconds request once do not know what to do, afraid.jpg”, “everything connected ×, everything Monitoring ✓”, “So I’ve always resented smart home (home automation)”, “So this is how privacy is stolen”, “Not uncommon… Within the scope of understanding… Chinese characteristics”.
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