Your Samsung Smart TV is spying on you

Carefully select the words spoken near the TV. After all, he can eavesdrop.

Samsung has confirmed that their smart TVs listen to every word of the user, so customers are not recommended to discuss personal information next to them.

Samsung said that the voice activation feature on TVs with Smart TV captures all nearby conversations. Devices can share information, including confidential data, directly with Samsung, as well as third-party services, according to theweek.com .

This news came after Shane Harris at The Daily Beast expressed concern about Samsung’s privacy policy: “Please note that if you say something, including confidential information, it will be among the data passed to third parties.” .
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Samsung explained how the voice activation function works: “if the consumer agrees and uses the voice recognition function, the data will be provided to a third party for the requested search for voice commands. Voice data is sent to a server that searches for the requested content, and then displays the necessary information on the TV screen. ”

The company added that it does not save or sell voice data. But they didn’t call the intermediary with which they recognize and process the speech of users.