Imagine that you can talk to your TV and it response to your commands. The technology has finally arrived at a store near you. Samsung's SmartTV uses voice recognition technology to enable voice
commands. No more hand remote! Amazing!
Not so amazing is the caveat that comes with the technology. It is better described as disturbing. Buried in Samsung's privacy policy, is a disclosure that reads, "if
your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that
information will be captured and transmitted to a third party." Notice the phrasing is NOT "could be" or "accidentally". Rather it clearly states "will be captured and transmitted".
Just when you finished covering your webcam to protect your privacy from hackers accessing your laptop camera, now you need to deal with your TV snooping on you as well. At least someone has to hack into your laptop. Not so with the Samsung SmartTV. The spyware is already embedded and will be capturing and transmitting your spoken words to a "third party".
Expect more of the same to come with the "Internet of Things".
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