Security News > 2021 > January > CES 2021 Gadgets: Worst in Privacy and Security Awards

This year's Consumer Electronics Show was hampered by the pandemic, but that didn't stop an expert panel from convening to award this year's dubious CES 2021 Worst in Show honors in the context of gadget privacy and security.

The awards were sponsored by the Repair Association and named the worst products from CES 2021 in the categories of privacy, security, ability to repair and environmental impact.

Security: TCL Smart TV. Paul Roberts from securerepairs, an advocacy group for the right to repair electronics, dubbed the Chinese-made TCL Smart TV as the least secure product he saw at CES 2021.

"This is a company that has spent much of the past three months batting away reports about serious security vulnerabilities in its Android smart television sets, including vulnerabilities and security configuration flaws that left some TCL TVs-and the data they contained-browsable from the public internet," he said.

"It is a company that was forced to make painful, public acknowledgments not just that their products were vulnerable, but that it had no established, internal security team or process to respond to vulnerability reports from independent security researchers and to expedite fixes for its tens of millions of customers."

The Worst of Show awards also focused on problems beyond privacy and security.

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