Breach of OpSec... by your TV

**Sniper-T** · 02-09-2015, 05:14 PM

I haven't confirmed this, just came across it elsewhere...

Be careful what you say in front of your Samsung TV. It's listening to you!!.

Many Samsung "SmartTVs" come equipped with voice recognition, which allows you to bark commands at your TV. Since the television is always listening for your voice, Samsung has warned its SmartTV customers that every word is being captured and sent over the Internet.

In their privacy statement and in their warnings in the fine print it says "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," Samsung posted in its SmartTV privacy policy.

Okay, that's pretty creepy.

And upon further reading..... the camera is also sending pic's to third parties....

So much for the late night snuggle on the couch.

**ak474u** · 02-09-2015, 07:33 PM

Saw that. 3rd parties, I.e. NSA

**bacpacker** · 02-10-2015, 01:28 AM

Need to do some research on LG's. Also, our department has installed a lot of monitors in conference rooms at work. I'm sure they would not want to broadcast the stuff that goes on.

If anyone finds some links please post them up.

**realist** · 02-10-2015, 01:59 AM

Well I'm safe our internet service sucks, we have ATT. Maybe they will up grade it to hear better, that would be ok.

**Domeguy** · 02-10-2015, 04:08 PM

We dream about getting AT&T internet. Our internet really sucks. It's satellite internet, and 15 ft from the router, my iPad says it's not connected to the internet because no wireless can be found. And the air printer we were forced to buy due to Apple won't recognize it, as the signal is too weak. Then these is a data limit, so don't even go there. Lol

**helomech** · 02-10-2015, 08:01 PM

Okay, you can't bitch about your internet speed until you post your results to this test. It is actually fast today. It is usually around .3mbps.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4132658350