Samsung Bans Smart TV Apps That Secretly Share Home Internet
Samsung announced in a statement that it will be removing all apps that share users' Internet connections following an exposé from Mnemonic researchers that revealed select apps, including an Editor's Choice-marked Pac-Man port, contained secret proxy exit node functionality.
We warned back in May that your smart TV is already spying on you, and LG recently wound up in the hot seat for some rather egregious Terms of Service updates surrounding that behavior. With that in mind, it's probably a good thing that Samsung quickly stompped out this behavior once it was made aware of it, though more thorough screening of featured Tizen apps should have revealed it before Mnemonic had to.
To those who may feel betrayed by Pac-Manpublisher Namco Bandai, don't be. While this is a licensed port, it was also handled by development studio Play.Works, who simply pay larger publishers for the license to port...
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