If you own a Samsung smart TV and enable voice recognition, you will know that you can tell the TV what to do with voice command instead of using the remote control. Good, that makes life easy. But what you don't know is that Samsung voice recognition tech in its smartTV lets other people eavesdropping on your private conversations by recording and sending out everything you say. Shock? I guess you should be.
Technology News website Dailybeat first spotted this in Samsung's privacy policy page, where it states that ''
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. In addition, Samsung may collect and your device may capture voice commands and associated texts so that we can provide you with Voice Recognition features and evaluate and improve the features. 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." So watch what you say in front of your smartTV!
But seriously, this is really bad. If not in the living room or bedroom , where else should we share our secrets? Just because a TV can do or carry out a task just by talking to it, doesn't mean it is a smart thing to do.