Your Samsung *Smart* TV is eavesdropping on your private conversations [View all]

[dixiegrrrrl]

The camera in your TV is watching you, too.

Many Samsung "SmartTVs" come equipped with voice recognition, which allows you to bark commands at your TV. Since the television is always listening for your voice, Samsung has warned its SmartTV customers that every word is being captured and sent over the Internet.

"Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition," Samsung posted in its SmartTV privacy policy.

Samsung says it needs to send your voice commands to a third-party, because that company converts your speech to text. But Samsung also collects your voice commands to perform research and determine whether it needs to make improvements to the feature.

"Samsung does not retain voice data or sell it to third parties," the company said in a statement. "If a consumer consents and uses the voice recognition feature ... the voice data is sent to a server, which searches for the requested content then returns the desired content to the TV."

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/09/technology/security/samsung-smart-tv-privacy/index.html

couple of problems here...

Nothing about security of what they send to a 3rd party, so they are sending your conversations into teh web ether .

Same with the camera...what are they recording, where does it go?
Hacker's paradise, it would seem.