Merged Eric Blair Would be Proud/In Eurasia, Telly Watches You

[Trebuchet]

Ha. You may not have connected to the Internet but that does not mean the Internet has not connected to you!

Uh-oh. Maybe it's not such a bad thing our internet here isn't very good.

I really should find the instructions for that set.

 

[Beerina]

A new Samsung smart TV's issues warning not to discuss sensitive information in its vicinity as it could be transferred to third parties - apparently it's to do with voice control feature. Samsung are playing the risk down but the notion is somewhat disconcerting nonetheless

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31296188

Reminds me of when Google let professors study the search terms people typed in, then it turned out people were typing in their Social Security numbers to see if they were on the Internet anywhere.

Google stopped the program because people searched for private terms that shouldn't be (and they hoped were not yet) public.

Hacking aside, the thing has to always listen and understand, to look for a start keyword like "Siri" if nothing else.

Not so fond of it being reported back to a database. Even less fond that this may be used to place you into advertising buckets then resold, much less the recognized chatter itself.