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The BBC has said that Samsung has issued a warning to its customers over their smart TVs, saying that people shouldn't talk about personal information in front them. When using the voice activation feature of the smart TV, it will listen to everything you say and may share that with Samsung and third parties.
This only came to light when The DailyBeast posted a new story pointing out part of the privacy policy...
"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"
Corynne McSherry, an IP lawyer for EFF, told The DailyBeast that the "third party" was probably the company providing speech-to-text conversion for Samsung. They also said: "If I were the customer, I might like to know who that third party was, and I’d definitely like to know whether my words were being transmitted in a secure form."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by frojack on Tuesday February 10 2015, @06:29AM
There are a lot more than two TV manufacturers in the world.
The panel is not the part containing the microphone.
If the feds or state government forces them to put a huge warning covering the entire screen and on every box stating that the TV will record every word spoken in the room, how long do you think it would take Samsung to rip the microphone out of every TV they sell?
Or just outlaw them entirely.
Can Samsung afford to write off the entire US market?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 10 2015, @10:05AM
Err … I don't think such laws will come to the US. To the EU, maybe (probably with an exemption for the UK).