Big Brother is listening...

[Devonian]

(9 February 2015, 17:41)BeardyMan Wrote: I thought it obvious that should one have a voice controlled TV, smartphone, games console that it will be recording everything said waiting for certain words. How else do you think these things work? And any data captured is always owned by the people who capture it, so it's tough shit really.

Just unplug the mic or turn off the voice command option.

Wait til they have the TVs controlled by hand gestures, then they'll have video of you prancing around the living room flailing your arms wildly when you're only trying to turn the volume down...

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...

Fortunately I don't have such technology, but you can be guaranteed that it'll be in any future ones that are purchased.

But it does make you wonder, after all think about how many TV's have an Xbox or Nintendo attached to them, I'm pretty sure a lot of them already have cameras (kinnect/Wii) which could be watching you.........