Posted on 03/27/2015 6:50:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CHICAGO -- When you sit down to watch television, you probably don't imagine that your TV is also watching you. But Consumer Reports says that new models of some popular brands of smart TVs can record and share information about everything you watch.
It's likely you don't think you've invited a spy into your home when setting up a new TV. But this Samsung can record and share everything that's viewed, whether it's a broadcast or streaming from the Internet. And some smart TVs can even track what DVD you're watching.
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See my reply #38 backing up what your warning.
No matter which way you go, they got ya!
Unless you go off line, off cable, off the grid and off the face of the Earth!.................
Pretty much true.
That’s why I find FR so liberating.
Samsung TV with voice activated command can 'hear you'.............
You just KNOW we are being watched, recorded, filed and sorted right now...............
Storage Wars, Pawn Stars, Hardcore Pawn, Shark Tank, Deal or No Deal, Swamp People, sunshine, baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet!
Moochelle probably has a spy camera in my fridge to see me getting a slice of pizza out of a storage container.
My parents have a stupid TV they aren’t using, and I’m thinking of going and getting it tomorrow.
yes. the new tvs have an active mic that is sending out data. it can also pick up its location using a camera in the room and monitoring the power jitter as seen thru the fluctuations in your lights. this gives them the location within a block (maybe better these days)
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We’ve got a nice 50 inch smarty, but being as it sits six inches from the desktop computer, we left it in it’s dumb state.
File an NFA Form 4.
“1984 is here.”
Welcomed with open arms and open wallets.
And microphones. TV with microphones allow all conversations to be listened to.
Glad I have a 1982 Zenith.
In Soviet Amerika Television watches you.
“They’re going to be very bored then”
That’s exactly why data mining is hot technology.
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