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Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don’t forget they can now get you to download their app to use those smrt features. Load that app…yes, that’s right.

Now that you’ve done that, they have your sweet sweet data.

[–] CeeBee@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The LG washer app asked for literally every possible permission. If it could ask for my DNA, it would have.