Big Brother is listening...

[CharlesHarris]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/.../22007615/


At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns about the extent of government surveillance. Those agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, began deploying the radar systems more than two years ago with little notice to the courts and no public disclosure of when or how they would be used. The technology raises legal and privacy issues because the U.S. Supreme Court has said officers generally cannot use high-tech sensors to tell them about the inside of a person's house without first obtaining a search warrant. The radars work like finely tuned motion detectors, using radio waves to zero in on movements as slight as human breathing from a distance of more than 50 feet. They can detect whether anyone is inside of a house, where they are and whether they are moving...

[BeardyMan]

(9 February 2015, 18:39)Devonian Wrote: I wouldn't say that it's obvious that every word spoken when you are in the same room is recorded and transcribed into text which is shared with their partners.

It's certainly not 'needed' to make the TV work, it's like using a remote control, it reacts to the button pressed (or your voice), it doesn't need to store and record which buttons were pressed and then send them back to Samsung for them to do whatever with...

That's how they work. The processing from speech to commands for the TV is done off-site by a third party company, NOT by the TV itself. Which is why the TVs now require internet connection.

Is it stored? Who knows. Probably...

(9 February 2015, 18:39)Devonian Wrote: Fortunately I don't have such technology, but you can be guaranteed that it'll be in any future ones that are purchased.

Any android phone that has the "O.K. Google" feature turned on does exactly the same, although the phone processes the "OK GOOGLE" command, then sends everything else off for processing (to google) But for this to work, that microphone is always listening. ALWAYS.