Sam Sung Super Spy!

Juan Mourep

Juan Mourep

Vital 1st Team Regular
http://www.cityam.com/209020/smart-tv-screens-could-be-listening-your-conversations-and-passing-them-third-parties-samsung?

If you have a Samsung Smart TV in your home, it's time to put an end to any incriminating conversations you might be having.

It turns out the product's screen can listen to what you say and pass information on to third parties.

Part of the company's privacy policy for its Smart TVs, which was posted online earlier this week by the Daily Beast, warns viewers that sensitive conversations could be picked up and shared through the product's voice activation facility.

“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,” it says.

According to the BBC, the third party Samsung is referring to is voice recognition specialist Nuance, which can convert speech into text.


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Yup. People really do need to gem up on the terms they agree to and privacy settings.

Then again, the world is mental enough now to have a TV show of people watching TV shows, so I guess some people actually want this shit.

Go figure! !
 
Talk about Walls have ears as well as ice cream!........ that's amazing, and very worrying - for people who have them.
 
kefkat - 9/2/2015 21:55

This has to be wind up? Right!
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Not at all, any smart (internet linked) TV can be accessed, if the TV has voice recognition it needs a microphone, so your conversations can be heard, the same applies to computers with mics and webcams, these can also be accessed so you can be watched as well as heard.


 
The Fear - 9/2/2015 20:59

Yup. People really do need to gem up on the terms they agree to and privacy settings.
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Indeed! FB has changed it's settings again, it now harvests information on your search and site history, it knows your every move, unless you opt out of course, everyone obviously missed FB telling people of this breach of privacy.



 
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:1: :1: :1: Awesome! How did you achieve those results? Plenty of HIIT to go along with a strict diet I assume?

The hat suits you by the way :35:


 
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