LG ThinQ Terms of Use Draw Scrutiny Over Appliance Data Rights

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LG's ThinQ terms of use hit 60 points and 29 comments on Hacker News, with discussion centered on the data-collection and rights-assignment language embedded in smart-appliance agreements. It is the consumer-hardware analogue of the AI training-data consent fight now playing out on the web. Practical note for builders: appliance-tier ToS are becoming a real source of training-corpus provenance questions.