Watch What You Say...The TV Could be Listening

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Samsung recently warned customers to watch what they say near their television remotes...because Samsung Smart TVs with voice activation technology activated may be listening and transmitting what is heard to a third party. Samsung did the right thing by telling customers, but is it wrong to have privacy vulnerabilities becoming a more present part of home technologies? Should people have a way to opt out? Kim Horcher discusses with special guests Piotr Michael (Voice Actor, Impressionist) and Andy Riesmeyer (Dweebcast)!

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2015/feb/13/samsungs-listening-tv-tech-rights

[merrily]

1. They may tell buyers, but what about guests of buyers?

If I go to a friend's and the TV is on, will I know if the TV is nosy or not?

[blkmusclmachine]

2. So this is why analog was killed.

[niyad]

3. decades ago, when there were tvs that could turn on to alert people about tornados and things,

I made the observation that if the set could be turned on to talk to you, it could easily be turned on to listen to you. I was told that it was impossible, that I was being paranoid.

[AngryDem001]

4. Television or TeleSCREEN?

You be the judge.

[MADem]

5. Ari Fleischer needs to do an ad for those things!!!!!! nt

[hopemountain]

6. yet, paranoid rob lowe the cable subscriber

is warning people that the listening devices are in our cheese.

seriously, i am a bit paranoid about the little blue light on my satellite receiver that turns on all by itself when i have turned it off - either day or night.

[charles d]

7. I don't think you've thought through the implications of posting this, Dave

[nikto]

8. When your Smart-TV...

Refuses to open the pod door,
that is the last straw.

[hobbit709]

9. I don't own a smart TV for the same reasons I don't own a smart phone

[santamargarita]

10. 1984 has come true.