Mirror lg tv stopping due to null?11/30/2022 ![]() ![]() You may also want to draw LG (and the ICO)'s attention to the fact the request appears to include cookie information, and to the infamous "cookie law". They would also be subject to the Data Protection Act for things like retention and providing ability for you to have any records they might hold purged. Including a full copy of one of the requests should be sufficient to authenticate you and provide them the information they'd need to check their logs. Since it seems they are aiming to be able to track you, it would be interesting to send them one anyway and see what they respond - they can charge you up to 10 pounds to process it, and there are legally mandated response times. That potentially means you can serve them with a Subject Access Request: If their data collection collects any personally identifiable information, they are subject to the UK Data Protection Act. It would be interesting to see how that might affect their next response. Since you are in the UK, it may be worth forwarding this to the Information Commissioners Office: and pointing out to LG that you have done so. ![]() So what does LG have to say about this? I approached them and asked them to comment on data collection, profiling of their customers, collection of usage information and mandatory embedded advertising on products that their customers had paid for. My wife was shocked to see our children's names being transmitted in the name of a Christmas video file that we had watched from USB. It would easily be possible to infer the presence of adult content or files that had been downloaded from file sharing sites. ![]() However, despite being missing at the moment, this collection URL could be implemented by LG on their server tomorrow, enabling them to start transparently collecting detailed information on what media files you have stored. I think it's important to point out that the URL that the data is being POSTed to doesn't in fact exist, you can see this from the HTTP 404 response in the next response from LG's server after the ACK. I couldn't determine what rules controlled this. Sometimes the names of the contents of an entire folder was posted, other times nothing was sent. &chan_name= BBC TWO&device_src_idx=1&dtv_standard_type=2 X-Authentication:YMu3V1dv8m8JD0ghrsmEToxONDI=Ĭookie:JSESSIONID=3BB87277C55EED9489B6E6B2DEA7C9FD.node_sdpibis10 Path=/Ĭontent-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded X-Device-ID:2yxQ5kEhf45fjUD35G+E/xdq7xxWE2ghu0j4an9kbGoNcyWaSsoLgyk8JJoMtjRrYRsVS6mHKy/Zdd6nZp+Y+gK6DVqnbQeDqr16YgacdzKU80sCKwOAi1TwIQov/SlB POST /ibs/v2.2/service/watchInformation.xml HTTP/1.1 Here is another example of a viewing info packet. Here you can clearly see that a unique device ID is transmitted, along with the Channel name "BBC NEWS" and a unique device ID. ![]()
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