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

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 Anal Pumpernickel on Tuesday February 10 2015, @10:15PM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Tuesday February 10 2015, @10:15PM (#143331)

    What if everybody decides to put Samsung on the No Buy list?

    You expect the ignorant and unintelligent majority to care about privacy?

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday February 10 2015, @10:24PM

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday February 10 2015, @10:24PM (#143340) Journal

    You expect the ignorant and unintelligent majority to care about privacy?

    Feeling a little elitist today I see....

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    • (Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday February 11 2015, @12:31AM

      by Arik (4543) on Wednesday February 11 2015, @12:31AM (#143382) Journal
      Maybe so but he still has a point.

      Sure, if people in general (or aggregate) were less stunningly ignorant and/or learned to think about their purchases half as much as they should, that wouldnt happen.

      But that's a fantasy world. Think about it for a moment.

      In that world, iphone and android are both flops and there is a secure, free OS for phones. In that world, neither Windows nor Mac ever gained much mindshare, because what idiot would even think about using an OS that doesnt come with source code for anything of any importance? And those that use their computer only for games? They could handle no source but they all said hell no when MS tried to sell them Windows. In that world, MS still makes a decent slice of their profit selling DOS, and it comes with proper OpenGL drivers.

      In that world, neither Netscape nor IE was ever very successful either, because every time some lame 'web designer' tried to use their extensions everyone just quit visiting his site. If Lynx has a problem with it, it's broken, buddy. Would be 'web designers' gave up in disgust around 1994 and switched en masse to high fashion and interior design, a move that benefited both the fields they fled to and from.

      Obviously we dont live in that world, and in this one, we will likely find within a few years that the defective by design product is the only one still being produced and sold, just as has been the case with so many other types of products in the past.
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