Recently, a mainland Chinese netizen named “v64500” wrote on the online forum “V2EX” that his internet-connected television was scanning electronic devices in his house and uploading the data to a company called “Gozen Data.”  The netizen revealed that his television is a mainland Chinese brand called “Skyworth.” The netizen thought the television was a bit slow and checked its backend service program and “found something called ‘Gozen Data’ and had no idea what it was doing.” The netizen said the television used the Android system. After studying the data for a while, v64500 found that “this thing [Gozen Data] scans all the internet-connected devices in my house every 10 minutes.” “It sends everything back, including hostname, MAC address, IP, and even network latency. It also scans names of surrounding Wi-Fi SSID and surrounding MAC addresses, and collectively sends them back to the domain name gz-data.com,” the netizen explained. “That is to …