A question about : Samsung Rejects Concern over Orwellian Privacy Policy
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Users of Samsung’s Smart TV devices have raised concerns over the device’s privacy policy, which seems to suggest that they should not discuss any sensitive topics in their living room while the television is plugged in.
The warning relates to the product line’s voice recognition services, which lets users control their television with voice commands input through a microphone on the set’s remote control. Samsung privacy policy warns: “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.” ... Orwell wrote: “Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.” |
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Encryption is necessary to give humans back a tiny bit of the privacy that we've lost as video, audio, and cyber-surveillance has inundated our society. If we are going to have cameras on us 24/7/365 we at least should be able to keep our thoughts and writings to ourselves, right?
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- G_d knows where all this data collection will end.
Well we do really.
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