Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Shh… Big Brother Is Listening

Or in this case your appliances like your TV, phone, and other voice controlled devices.
Be Careful What You Say Around Your Samsung Smart TV
Voice-recognition data collection can be turned off, but it may prevent you from using all of the voice features. 
BY Stephanie Mlot
February 9, 2015

As first reported by The Daily Beast, Samsung's Smart TV privacy policy includes the following warning.
"Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition," the site says.

Those third parties, according to Samsung's policies, perform tasks like converting speech to text, while data collection helps the company improve its services, it said.
Do you remember George Orwell's novel 1984 where the government had listening devices everywhere, well 1984 has arrived, but instead of the government it is big business. Its capitalism, if there is a buck to be made, we’ll make it and we will happily go along with it because now we don’t even have to push a button was just have to say a word.

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