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A well-known manufacturer of televisions is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set. The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Smart TV using its voice activation feature.
Such TV sets "listen" to some of what is said in front of them and may share details they hear with the company or third parties.
Privacy campaigners said the technology smacked of the telescreens, in George Orwell's 1984, which spied on citizens. The warning came to light via an excerpt of a section in the tv manufacturers privacy policy for its net-connected Smart TV sets. The policy explains that the TV set will be listening to people in the same room to try to spot when commands or queries are issued via the remote control. It goes on to say: "If your spoken words include those of a personal nature or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party."
Apparently if a consumer consents and uses the voice recognition feature, voice data is provided to a third party during a requested voice command search. The voice data is sent to a server, which searches for the requested content then returns the desired content to the TV.
Customers would be wise to ensure data collection was turned off for those who did not want to share information.

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