{"id":841127,"date":"2026-09-08T23:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841127\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T23:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:48:15","slug":"lg-tv-shown-scanning-lan-for-third-party-phones-and-other-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841127\/","title":{"rendered":"LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices"},"content":{"rendered":"

LG TVs are facing scrutiny due to a video seemingly showing the devices\u2019 capability to track users when the TVs are off.<\/p>\n

YouTube channel Gamers Nexus<\/a> worked with Level1Techs, a technology-focused YouTube channel,\u00a0and security researchers to analyze LG TVs\u2019 tracking capabilities. They shared packet captures that pointed to the TVs, including LG\u2019s pricey G5 OLED TV, scanning the LAN for other devices.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe [G5] crawled our entire network and found dozens of unrelated devices, including smartwatches and phones of our staff who didn\u2019t even know we were working on this,\u201d Steve Burke, Gamers Nexus\u2019 editor-in-chief, said.<\/p>\n


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Gamers Nexus\u2019 video shows results from Wireshark testing of LG\u2019s OLED65G3PUA, which currently has a starting MSRP of $2,500.<\/p>\n

Gamers Nexus\u2019 video shows results from Wireshark testing of LG\u2019s OLED65G3PUA, which currently has a starting MSRP of $2,500.<\/p>\n

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GamersNexus\/YouTube<\/p>\n

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LG\u2019s ad business, LG Ad Solutions, has said<\/a> in recent marketing materials that it can reach 363 million \u201caddressable secondary devices\u201d in the US.<\/p>\n

When reached for comment, a company representative shared a statement from LG Electronics via email:<\/p>\n

LG\u00a0TVs can identify compatible devices on the same network to enable features such as device connectivity, content sharing or smart home functionality.<\/p>\n

The YouTube channel used Wireshark, a network protocol analyzer tool, and inspected the TV\u2019s firmware and found that LG TVs \u201care capable of identifying your IP address, geographic location, name of every Wi-Fi network in the vicinity and signal strength, channel numbers of neighboring Wi-Fi networks in range, and other devices on the network, even if not connected to the TV in any way, and the internal IP address of other devices on the network, alongside others.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear if LG TVs use this functionality for any purposes beyond advertising, such as diagnostics, or if this information is all sent to LG. It remains concerning, however, that devices with this technology are sitting in unsuspecting owners\u2019 homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LG TVs are facing scrutiny due to a video seemingly showing the devices\u2019 capability to track users when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-841127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}