Friday, February 17, 2017

"Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set"

BBC:
such TV sets "listen" to what is said and may share what they hear with Samsung or third parties

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"If your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party."

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The third party handling the translation from speech to text is a firm called Nuance Communications, Inc.