Samsung SmartTV: Watch, what you look at watches you

Let's go to the other one hereso that the serial doesn't hear us! With its smart TVs Samsung you have to be careful what you say especially when they are turned on.Samsung SmartTV spying

Some who have been reading the fine text in the Samsung manual have discovered many paragraphs that are opposed to privacy policy. The paragraphs refer to the voice recognition feature and begin somewhat painlessly:

“To provide you with voice recognition, certain voice commands may be transmitted (along with information related to (such as device identifier) ​​to a third-party speech-to-text service to the extent necessary to provide your voice recognition capabilities.”

The next paragraph comes with the assumption:

"In addition, Samsung can collect and your device can capture voice commands and related texts, so that we can provide you with voice recognition capabilities, evaluation and enhancement features."

As you can see from above, Samsung can find people as long as it has MAC addresses. Samsung records what you say along with your device's MAC address and your Internet Service Provider can find you!

The situation is even worse in the last paragraph:

"You should be aware that if your oral speech includes personal or other sensitive information, that information is among the data collected and transmitted to third parties through the use of the voice recognition feature."

So don't think about using Internet Banking with Samsung open and whispering the code , because the Korean company will record your code and send it to third-party services.

Even worse, it is as Samsung says:

“If you do not enable the voice recognition feature, you will not be able to use interactive voice recognition features to be able to control your TV using certain predefined voice commands. If disabled, Samsung will not collect your speech, but may collect texts and other usage data so that we can evaluate its performance of the device and its improvement.”

“You can turn it off voice recognition at any time with a visit to "Settings". However, this may prevent you from using all voice recognition features.”

Samsung naturally reports on privacy policy that all the data it collects is encrypted and can not be used by unauthorized persons.

But the hacks of Anthem, Target, Sony and many other companies are real. Of course all of the above had made similar commitments and extolled the effectiveness of their security.

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