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02-09-2015 05:56 PM
Read the whole article. It is not what the Headline or the OP is saying if you read all the way thru.
02-09-2015 05:59 PM
Revealing information to a third party they said.
02-09-2015 06:00 PM
02-09-2015 06:01 PM
02-09-2015 06:02 PM
On 2/9/2015 esmeraldagooch said:
Thank you esmereldagooch. I was just going to post this same clip from the snopes article linked above.
02-09-2015 06:05 PM
This quite interesting. Some were not concerned by smart meters. How can they hurt me. Well, you go on vacation and set the thermostat down while you're gone. Your information is sold to others who can sell to you or perhaps be hacked into to let others rob you, or gain entrance to your home if you have smart TV to see or listen in your home.....
You have a tv in the bedroom ladies? What else do you do there?
02-09-2015 06:07 PM
In response to the February 2015 concerns about Samsung's smart TV privacy policy, the company issued a statement clarifying their data collection and storage practices. Contrary to web rumors, Samsung denied ever selling information to third parties, and explained that the language pertained only to the use of voice response functions on Internet-capable televisions:
Ultimately, devices such as smart TVs and smartphones are capable of recording voice data (even without the end user's knowledge or consent). However, the language highlighted in the manual (quoted above) that caused concern among consumers pertained solely to the capture of conversations recorded while voice recognition features were engaged via user initiation. Samsung has issued a SmartTV Supplement that expands on their original user's manual:
Last updated: 9 February 2015
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/info/news/smarttv.asp#LzQAADEgzZwpL0Bq.99
02-09-2015 06:08 PM
On 2/9/2015 Lucibee said: I read that somewhere. Scary, but for what purpose?
Mostly for advertising-that's what we're told. Some tv sets can "watch" you asnd your family as you are watching the tv. I think Congress was trying to get a law passed about informing consumers that their tvs could be watching them.
02-09-2015 06:09 PM
An Internet connected TV that eavesdrops on the stuff you say when you’re sitting on the sofa is just the latest overreaching privacy intrusion to come to light in the tech sphere.
It’s unlikely to be the worst, and sure won’t be the last. But as more of these egregious, overreaching policies come to light — and as more of the objects with which we are surrounded in our homes, cars and lives are networked up and brought online, and thus given (at very least) the technical ability to snoop on us — there is a growing imperative to clean up the darker corners of the digital commerce sphere. To set some boundaries on what is and is not acceptable. Or risk growing consumer mistrust.
When all the objects in your home have networked ears that are fine-tuned for commercial intelligence gathering, where will you go to talk about “personal” or “sensitive” stuff?
02-09-2015 06:09 PM
Sorry, when the story was on the local news this morning, nothing was mentioned about the ability to turn this feature off.
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