Samsung must be out of their freaking minds to think it's okay to listen to people.
I'll never buy a product again from Samsung.
Translation... Your Samsung TV is spying on you.
Samsung TVs are premium, if only marginally. Time to go LG, Vizio, Chinese, or (if there’s a sale) maybe Sony. How the mighty have fallen.
By the way, I have a 2 year old Samsung, and I think that their “Smart TV” initiative is a bad technological detour. If I want internet sourcing, I’ll use something that lets me get to it a lot better than a remote control.
Amazon Echo listens to everything said and is meant to serve you information off the internet, but it learns more about your activities and interests over time to anticipate your needs. It has voice recognition to distinguish the needs of each family member. Of course every word spoken goes into a huge database on you.
http://www.amazon.com/oc/echo/ref_=ods_dp_ae
Where's the basis for a lawsuit? The way I read the article, you don't have to activate the voice recognition software, and they are giving you fair warning of the risk if you do.
I am much more concerned about what happens WHEN the government mandates this capability, or at least require Samsung and other such manufacturers to relay the information they collect to the government.
Easy enough to remedy this. Don’t connect your TV to the network in your home. Of course, you’ll lose lots of functionality by not doing so. No apps, software updates, or internet based services.
I bought a new ‘Smart TV’ last year, but it doesn’t have any of the voice recognition, so I don’t THINK it can ‘listen’.
The whole concept known as the “Internet Of Things”, or “IOT” has A LOT of potential for mischief. Proceed with great CAUTION! I’m an IT person and do it for a living. I WOULDN’T use such things, because I KNOW the potential harm that can take place!
Well, that’s nice. I just bought a Smart TV before Thanksgiving last year. However, I’ve never used voice recognition, so maybe I’m safe? There are still some features I haven’t used yet. So maybe that’s a good thing.
Holy cow.
Just plug the mic.
Holy carp!!! Our freedom and now our privacy too! Thanks you Obama LIV turds!!! You might be who you were waiting for but I’d love to kick your #@$$!
I device you actually talk into all the time -- your phone, if you use Siri or Google voice recognition -- has been doing this for years. Anyone who doesn't realize that speech recognition is sent to servers and doesn't read the privacy policy has only themselves to blame.
No TV here.
/johnny
Because you can trust your government and the companies that they let do business. Samsung wouldn't lie, would they?
Well yeah, how do people think voice recognition works? It listens to you CONSTANTLY, learning how you pronounce words so that when you give it a command it can figure it out. Don’t like it, don’t use the feature.
No doubt, the Feds have a backdoor.
I’m sure that if Samsung does it, others do.
The Feds won’t allow a lawsuit because of “national security” concerns.
Television becomes tell-on-u-vision
TV ping
Only low-techs will be free.
The irony is delicious. The same people who are upset over samsung “smart” tv’s listening to their conversations ever so willingly let google monitor their whereabouts (location, maps), their friends (contact list), their future appointments and whereabouts (calendar) and preferences (internet searches). But OMG Samsung is listening on the TV.
Cue Yakov Smirnoff !