Posted on 02/09/2015 7:15:37 AM PST by Patriot777
Not too long ago I engaged in a conversation with my spouse about how I learned, quite a long time ago, that a great many television sets--possibly all of them, that are not CRTs but are now the projection, HDs, flat-screen, 3D, curved-screen, Smart Screen, and all the others--have cameras installed in them that are being used to record everything we say and do. And, such information is disseminated to... Since I'm kinda down with a fair bit of pain today, this would be a good topic for me to research, to find out just what TVs have this feature and if so, how to disable it. I'm sure that you, my fellow Freepers, will jump ahead of me and take this puppy on before I even finish my second cup of coffee. God bless you! :-)
I read recently that the FBI arrested a stalker who had hacked into the cameras in monitors and was watching women work on their PC’s. Apparently, a fair number worked naked. Most of these woman had no idea their monitor contained a camera. The answer is put tape over it.
I don’t have a television. I guess that means I have something to hide, that I am ant-social.
Soon we will be required to have the latest telescreen.
Long live Big Brother.
We must eliminate the Emmanuel Goldsteins.
Big Brother is Watching.
Your location has been detected based on your internet postings. You will be picked up shortly and transferred to the Ministry of Love for re-education.
I’m far more concerned about my smart phone than my smart TV.
‘Course, in my case it may be because all we use our TV for is watching DVD’s and BlueRays. It has not internet connectivity.
If I ever needed to connect it to the web, I would add a physical kill switch for the mic and one for the camera.
“our location has been detected based on your internet postings. You will be picked up shortly and transferred to the Ministry of Love for re-education.”
Ah, Room 101, which is in the West Wing, is it not?
When they call something “smart” they’re not talking about the buyer.
I have tape over the camera feature on my laptop, tablets and phone. When I want to take a picture it comes off and then goes back on. The TVs I have are 2010 vintage so I don’t know if they incorporate a camera, certainly I didn’t request such a feature.
I’m not sure how these data are transmitted from my TV back to the broadcast stations. No cable here.
These threads were posted recently.
Today In Creepy Privacy Policies, Samsung’s Eavesdropping TV
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3255476/posts
Samsung’s warning: Our Smart TVs record your living room chatter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3255625/posts
Yep. I’ve been putting tape over my camera for years.
I was working at my desk one day at T-Mobile about five years ago and I noticed the little light next to my camera was on. Didn’t matter because of the tape over the lens, but mics are not so easy to disable. Many of them ore IN the keyboard somewhere.
I heard that decades ago.
Paranoid drug addicts have been sayingnthat for decades.
Bkmrk.
No cable here.
No TV, no problem.
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Thank God for mobile devices. And lead lined boxes.
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Unlikely. Don’t hook your TV up to the internet, disable the wireless if it has one. Find out its MAC address and disable it on your router.
Don’t buy TV’s with embedded camera’s and microphones. If you must, take a drill to the camera and the mic, then send a continuous video and audio of Obama giving speeches.
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