Sure, till they start adding cellphone-tower enabled connectivity. Your move, consumer.

Don't even need this, with projects like Amazon sidewalk they can mooch your neighbors secured wifi

Details https://mashable.com/article/amazon-sidewalk-surveillance-ne... If you have certain Ring cameras or Echo devices, Amazon enabled a new radio in it back in September. You can opt out from the Alexa app: More -> Settings -> Account Settings -> Amazon Sidewalk -> Off.

Though at least if they did this, it's not using my network/affecting my data limits/able to be used by a hacker to exploit my network. Plus there would probably be a physical cell antenna somewhere that could be... altered.

RF jammer. Checkmate.

Endgame is the FCC forces consumer-data-control on the industry because it's the only way they can get the 5G/GPS jammer problem back under control.

I live outside the cellphone coverage area. Your move, manufacturer.

... for now. Cell coverage isn’t shrinking.

I actually is. Or at least the individual cells are... At some point it will be fun to install cells in your own home...

How do you do this? Wrapping it in grounded tin foil? Ripping out the wifi module?

Do I need to void warranty and dissect a new piece of consumer electronics to remove the spy organ? Is that really an acceptable situation?

I never connect it via WiFi so it never has my password and use an Apple TV for streaming services. If I need to update the firmware, I use ethernet and then disconnect when done.

Put a password on your wifi, it other security benefits as well.

What about the neighbor's wifi?

Wardriving is a thing. Broadcast an unsecured SSID and talk to anyone who joins.

Excellent point, I wonder if there are published experiments about this kind of reverse wardriving against consumer IoT devices.

Does your TV magically crack the WPA2 password?

No but your neighbors echo might just give it theirs https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?ie=UTF8&node=213281...

Why would it need to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275350

>And inevitably someone will say that they'd heard that Smart TVs will connect to unsecured WiFi networks in proximity and start uploading your data.

That's bullshit because that could get into a HIGHLY illegal issue on the manufacturer as they could join into a foreign network tampering with comms. And IDK on the US, but the fines on Europe on that are really high.