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When I access my Vu Android TV through the @Google Home app, and check the linked accounts, it basically lists what I imagine is every single person who owns this television. This is shocking incompetence. pic.twitter.com/5DGwrArsco

— prashanth (@wothadei) March 3, 2019

Twitter user Prashanth posted two videos of the “Linked Accounts” feature going haywire. After the above video scrolling through linked accounts, a second shows him enabling the display of photos from random accounts. “Oh my god.” Prashanth tweeted, “Private @googlephotos of strangers are being shown to me in the ambient mode screensaver. SERIOUSLY WHAT THE F–K?!”

Prashanth speculated earlier that the issue was a problem with his Vu TV, since his other Android TV device, a Xiaomi Mi Box 3, did not show random accounts. A Vu spokesperson spoke to Gadgets 360 and blamed the issue on Google, though. “We were recently notified that there was a malfunction of Google Home App in some of the Android TVs.” the spokesperson told Gadgets 360. “After verifying the incident we have informed our customers that it was not an issue of Vu Television but it was software malfunction of the Google Home App. We take your privacy very seriously. Vu has a long-standing commitment to protecting the privacy of the personal information that our customers entrusts to us.”