Be careful what you say in front of your smart TV, you don’t know who’s listening in

“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.”

This sentence is buried deep inside Samsung’s End-User License Agreement for its Smart TV in the UK, at least the ones with voice recognition technology (here’s the link to the EULA. Read the terms under “Voice Recognition”. Still it’s scary to think that with more devices connected to the internet the more we have to be hyper-aware of our privacy and how it can be violated.

While the future looks interesting with a more connected world and the internet of things becoming a reality, in some form or another, someone is watching almost everything that you do without you even knowing it — and, that’s scary as hell.

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