Samsung has warned its clients that they should not discuss personal matters in front of the TV.
Warning is intended for those who prefer to issue commands Samsung Smart TV is not using the remote control, and voice.
Smart TV “listens” to what people say about him, and sometimes transmits the data to the company Samsung or any third party.
Defenders of privacy have claimed that it is very similar to the “telescreen” of George Orwell’s novel “1984″.
The news that the Samsung Smart TV “overhears” their masters circulated online magazine Daily Beast – he published excerpts from the rules on access to information for users of Smart TV, which are connected to the Internet.
The rules say, TV that “listens” to the people who are in the same room with them, in order to determine when it receives a command or when asked.
In the following text mentions the following: “If your words contain personal or other private information, this information will be among the obtained [TV] data to be transferred to a third party “.
Corinne McSherry, a lawyer from the fund Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), specializing in intellectual property issues, said in an interview with Daily Beast, that a “third party” apparently refers to the company that converts speech to text for Samsung.
“If I were a customer, I would like to know who is this “third party”, and I certainly would like to know that my words in a secure way, “- she added.
After the news of his hosts listening TVs spread throughout the Internet, Samsung unveiled a statement that explains how the voice control.
The company stresses that this feature can be enabled only when the remote control.
According to the Samsung, rules were published in the part of the “policy of transparency” to ensure that the client has had all the necessary information about the functions of Smart TV.
Samsung adds that “extremely seriously” refers to the protection of the right to privacy.
The statement said that “if the client agrees and wants to activate the voice command, he said to them words are transmitted to a third party during the search for the required client commands. Voice data is sent to the server, which is the desired content, and sends the content to the client’s TV “.
The company stresses that does not store the received voice data and does not sell her.
In a statement, Samsung also said that Smart TV users always know whether they listen to the TV, since the function is activated voice command appears on the TV image microphone.
Samsung – not the first company to be at the center of criticism because of their TVs connected to the Internet. In late 2013, the British computer scientist discovered that his brand LG TV to collect data on what programs he watches.
After unflattering articles in the press LG has updated its program of Smart TV, so the client can disable similar data gathering .
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