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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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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)

submitted 10 months ago by minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well to be fair to giant spying companies, it would be fairly easy to sift through data as it comes in and only keep relevant metrics in a statistics database and throw out the rest before the day is through.

For giants like LG, Samsung, etc... it would be a drop in the bucket.

[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Sure but that's a lot of data for a washing machine

[–] brianorca@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's still bandwidth they have to pay for, which they could have used for more useful data, like having all the TVs phone home.