The TV isn’t eavesdropping, that’s why it’s tinfoilery.
>! The TV isn’t eavesdropping, that’s why it’s tinfoilery.
But that could sure be fixed with an online update couldn’t it? Thats not tinfoilery. The fact that the feature can be enabled remotely is not a good idea...i’m sure they’ve never thought of that though.../s
Uh, Sunken? Several articles have come out on this in the past couple of days and the Samsung TV is indeed listening to everything spoken in its presence, sending the voice to remote servers for interpretation to see if the words are commands the TV needs to use for control purposes. However, EVERYTHING spoken in the presence of the TV IS indeed sent to the servers for interpretation. After it leaves your home, who knows what is done with it, is it archived, combed for subversive content, available to authorities for warrantless tapping, etc. This is NOT tinfoillery when they ARE doing it.
This would be entirely different if the TV was listening for a trigger phrase such as "HEY idiot box!" or "Listen Up Samsung!" before sending the next ten or twenty seconds of spoken sound to the servers. . . but they opted for blanket sending of everything. That means that everything is parsed so who knows what other key phrases trigger other actions.