NEW YORK – Maybe the CIA is spying on you through your television set after all.
Documents released by WikiLeaks allege a CIA surveillance program that targets everyday gadgets ranging from smart TVs to smartphones to cars. Such snooping, WikiLeaks said, could turn some of these devices into recorders that could snoop on everyday conversations — and could also circumvent data-scrambling encryption on communications apps such as Facebook’s WhatsApp.
The organization is, for now, withholding details on the specific hacks used “until a consensus emerges” on the nature of the CIA’s program and how the methods should be “analyzed, disarmed and published.” But WikiLeaks — a non-profit that routinely publishes confidential documents, frequently from government sources — claims that the data and documents it obtained reveal a broad …