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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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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sending that to whom? Why is that information leaving your house? Do you want LG to know about your dishes? If it stayed inside the network, that would be one thing, but I wouldn't want information like that on the Internet.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The appliance status and logs are stored in the cloud so you can retrieved them when the appliance is off. Also the web is used for push notifications and for checking for firmware updates.