Old 02-08-2015, 16:48   #1
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http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/08/telescreen/

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The potential privacy intrusion of voice-activated services is massive. Samsung, which makes a series of Internet connected TVs, has a supplementary privacy policy covering its Smart TVs which includes the following section on voice recognition (emphasis mine):


You can control your SmartTV, and use many of its features, with voice commands. If you enable Voice Recognition, you can interact with your Smart TV using your voice. To provide you the Voice Recognition feature, some voice commands may be transmitted (along with information about your device, including device identifiers) to a third-party service that converts speech to text or to the extent necessary to provide the Voice Recognition features to you. In addition, Samsung may collect and your device may capture voice commands and associated texts so that we can provide you with Voice Recognition features and evaluate and improve the features. Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.
Yup, that's right, the new smart TV's actually send everything that the mic picks up to a third party for analysis to see if you gave it a command... You can turn it off, but it still sends "selected text" for feature improvement.

I truly hope no team rooms or other secure areas are boasting one of these TV's.
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Old 02-08-2015, 16:56   #2
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Yup, that's right, the new smart TV's actually send everything that the mic picks up to a third party for analysis to see if you gave it a command..
I bet DOJ is upset that this is now public??
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