Samsung SmartTV Customers Warned Personal Conversations May Be Recorded

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 9, 2015 @03:21AM from the not-in-front-of-the-television dept.

An anonymous reader writes Samsung's privacy policy includes details that its Smart TV voice recognition feature may pick up on personal conversations and transmit private communications to third parties. Buried in the privacy policy related to the smart television, Samsung advises users to be aware that any snippets of conversation might be captured by the software which allows them to control their television sets with a series of commands. Questions have been raised about who these third parties could be, what the information is used for, and how the data is being transmitted – with potentially unencrypted voice clips left exposed to hackers.

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In Soviet Russia TV watches you. Oh, wait... by Still+beliving+I+am+ · 2015-02-09 03:26 · Score: 5, Funny

My phone is spying on me too, just like in Soviet Russia
Re:Smart by bobbied · 2015-02-09 03:43 · Score: 3, Funny

Have you seen "Smart Cars" ???

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