hodg100
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If you want privacy, don't use the internet. Since the commercialisation of the web, nobody was ever promised privacy or anonyminity by the corporations running it.How about when it's being used to search the net in the browser?
Some of the comments on here are stupid beyond measure and display ignorance and disrespect. Surely the companies involved are capable of evaluating the process by themselves.
It's going down the whole 'why worry if you have nothing to hide' attitude.
1. Because people deserve the right to privacy.
2. To prevent the potential misuse of personal information.
Two obvious reasons for a start.
So because your isp can monitor your internet activity you are to surrender that information to companies that produce whatever hardware you access it on too?If you want privacy, don't use the internet. Since the commercialisation of the web, nobody was ever promised privacy or anonyminity by the corporations running it.
"As someone who doesn't use the voice feature on his h6400, how do I make sure it's off and never listening?"
I can't use it on my LG as long as I don't agree to the T&C's for this particular part. May be the same with your set.
The solution is to physically block sensors you don't wish to utilise - never rely on software menus/controls.
Because they're warpedWhy does the tv bend??
@Only777 "However it's ok for a tv to record and transmit our personal conversations to an undisclosed 3rd party and if we question this, we're the sad ones?"
Where in this story did it say it's recording our personal conversations? It is purely stating that (this is the important bit) when you press the listen button (another example is Google's Android feature, "Okay Google...") that is actually records anything, once it finishes listening it stops recording and processes what you said. What is wrong with sending that recording off to a third party? If you want the service to get better how can it do it if they cannot analyse it? Do you worry when you phone a company and it states the call will be used for training and quality purposes?
The TVs etc are not always listening, it's just when you ask it to... I suppose you could always ask the TV to listen and then have a conversation - but then you're weird and do you think the people analysing it would care? They would just ignore it and move on to the next recording to help them do their job.
But the whole point Samsung are saying is that the system will only listen when you ask it to... they're not listening all the time to personal conversations - I don't see the issue... you don't have to use the function!For me you draw the line at companies being able to hear what you say in your own home and that includes Google, Microsoft or anyone else. Just because other companies do it doesn't make it alright.
In my opinion and I'm sure that of many others there is a difference between analysing data and listening to us. It becomes too personal when they can hear us.
The companies could evaluate the effectiveness of the function themselves. It's not the case that they can't do so without customer feedback.
And there are countless examples of abuse of personal/sensitive information or people taking liberties with monitoring equipment - cctv operators perving on women for example. I don't accept that the information gathered could never be misused or end up in the wrong hands.
And as Only777 said, who is to say what is acceptable use of the information in the first place? The anonymous people collecting it? If it's being passed on to other companies for targeted advertising for example then its open season and the info becomes very unsecured.