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AI Security2 min readJune 6, 2026

Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

Free applications on smart TVs are being exploited to secretly scrape website content and funnel it to AI training operations without users' knowledge or consent, effectively turning the devices into unauthorized proxies for data theft. Business leaders a

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