In capitalist Eurasia, the telly watches you

A new Samsung smart TV's issues warning not to discuss sensitive information in its vicinity as it could be transferred to third parties - apparently it's to do with voice control feature. Samsung are playing the risk down but the notion is somewhat disconcerting nonetheless



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The policy explains that the TV set will be listening to people in the same room to try to spot when commands or queries are issued via the remote. It goes on to say: "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 intellectual property lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) which campaigns on digital rights issues, told the Daily Beast that the third party was probably the company providing speech-to-text conversion for Samsung. She added: "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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