Samsung warns that the company's modern Smart TVs , through their Voice Recognition system , will be able to send to third parties what those who are near the television say.
In more detail, parts of the end-user license (EULA) in Samsung's Smart TV privacy policy state:
"To provide you the Voice Recognition feature, some voice commands may be transmitted (along with information about your device, including device identifiers) to a third-party service that converts speech to text or to the extent necessary to provide the Voice Recognition features to you."
Then, there is the warning regarding sensitive information that will be transferred to third parties:
"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."
But even if do not activate the Voice Recognition system, there is information collection:
"If you do not enable Voice Recognition, you will not be able to use interactive voice recognition features, although you may be able to control your TV using certain predefined voice commands. While Samsung will not collect your spoken word, Samsung may still collect associated texts and other usage data so that we can evaluate the performance of the feature and improve it."
Samsung , and for this reason it informs smart TV buyers that everything heard may be recorded and sent to the partner companies.
Of course, there is also the option to disable the system, but in this case you cannot use the features of the voice recognition system:
"You may disable Voice Recognition data collection at any time by visiting the "settings" menu. However, this may prevent you from using all of the Voice Recognition features."
As reported by The Register, the company's response to the broad discussions that have begun on the subject is that the information it collects is transmitted encrypted.
Source: gr.pcmag.com
