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George Orwell's "1984" Telescreens are Here...

posted by janrinok on Tuesday February 10 2015, @02:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the and-who-thought-that-this-was-a-good-idea? dept.

WizardFusion writes:

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."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 10 2015, @08:35PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 10 2015, @08:35PM (#143290) Journal

    Given the hypegasm regarding the "internet of things" I think it'll be perhaps a year or two before consumer routers/wireless access points start coming with predefined SSIDs

    Well then, I'll make sure to put together a router with no wireless - you know, the classical old computer with two net cards - my house is Cat6 wired already.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday February 11 2015, @02:41AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday February 11 2015, @02:41AM (#143416) Journal

    Doesn't matter because your stuff will connect to your neighbor instead. Make use of some 2.4 GHz small spectrum"very energetic pulse"..

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 11 2015, @03:25AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 11 2015, @03:25AM (#143425) Journal
      By the time the IoT will be entrenched so well that I won't find "dumb" appliances, my nearest neighbour will be 200m away (I hope).
      Barring this, an Al-foil wrapped around the antenna should do (if not necessarily blocking the signal, it'll modify the impedance/capacitance enough to throw the emitted EM out of band).

      Make use of some 2.4 GHz small spectrum"very energetic pulse"

      (yes, there's always the possibility of a DIY flux compression generator EM-pulse [wikipedia.org] - I hope it qualifies for "very energetic pulse" - grin)

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