To top it off, you won’t be able to use many of the functions that put the “smart” into LG’s Smart TV. So, even if you don’t agree to share information, you’ll still be sharing information. In that case, we will still receive certain non-identifying information from your Smart TV that we need to provide the basic functions that will be available. You do not have to agree to the Privacy Policy but if you do not, not all Smart TV Services will be available to you. Our Privacy Policy explains and seeks your agreement for how we collect, use, and share information that we obtain as a result of your use of LG Smart TV Services, as well as how we use cookies. The opening paragraph makes this perfectly clear. In fact, it makes no secret of this in its long Privacy Policy - a document that spends more time discussing the lack thereof, rather than privacy itself.
LG certainly feels it has the right to do this. Does a manufacturer have the right to “brick” certain integral services just because the end user doesn’t feel comfortable sharing a bunch of info with LG and other, unnamed third parties?
We did not expect some legal bully to come along nearly two years later and tell us to share all our information with the world OR ELSE? We bought the set because it satisfied our criteria at the time. Any one sorted this problem yet?īefore some smart alec says “Take It back”. Surely in the uk at least you should not be able to change the goal posts at will. I think the company must be in breach of contract since the smart functions are no longer available. Since I agreed not to hack into installed software (as if I Could)We cannot get around the block. but having read the Privacy Doc I was not best pleased with the companies assumption that I would simply agree to their sharing all our intimate viewing details (plus what ever else they can see)with all and sundry. So like a good little citizen I read and agreed with the first doc regarding use of said TV.
I was confronted with a message asking me to read and agree with a couple of important new documents. Techdirt reader Oldlad stuck this through the Submissions slot recently:īecause I will not agree to LG’s Privacy Policy, I can now no longer access/use any of of the TV’s network based programs: Iplayer, Skype, 3D etc.Īs of the 7th May following a software update to our less than two year old LG TV.
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