TV tapped

Just on the International Safe Internet Day, a scandal erupted around modern Samsung smart TVs. It turned out that the "privacy policy" for these devices, published online by a Korean company, warns against providing sensitive and private information near this device when the voice recognition system is working, as it can be intercepted and sent to a "third party" ". party" without our knowledge.

Samsung representatives explain that the warning is due to the fact that the company takes privacy and the protection of personal data seriously. All voice commands in the speech recognition system in Smart TV go to servers that are engaged, for example, in searching for ordered films. Naturally, other sounds registered by the system also get there.

Activists at the UK's Electronic Frontier Foundation who have drawn attention to these threats have compared them to Orwell's 1984 Big Brother. Important information for Smart TV users may be the ability to disable the voice recognition service. However, then one of the important and advertised Smart TV services disappears.