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Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set.
The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Samsung 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 Samsung or third parties, it said.
Privacy campaigners said the technology smacked of the telescreens, in George Orwell's 1984, which spied on citizens.
Data sharing
The warning came to light via a story in online news magazine the Daily Beast which published an excerpt of a section of Samsung's 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. It goes on to say: "If your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party."
Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25018225 LG is investigating allegations that some of its TVs send details about their owners' viewing habits back to the manufacturer even if the users have activated a privacy setting.
It follows a blog by a UK-based IT consultant who detailed how his Smart TV was sending data about which channels were being watched.
His investigation also indicated that the TVs uploaded information about the contents of devices attached to the TV.
So watch out if you downloaded something naughty, and played it on you x box or dvd player.
And if your doing something mucky not in front of the TV please.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Which is worse.?
LG saying look he watches porn on his TV.
OR Samsung listening to people having sex.?
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Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
There is a vast difference between being a luddite, the actual Luddites, and what's going on here. The fear isn't new and emerging technology, or that you should destroy it because it's going to take away your livelihood. The fear is that it's going to be use against you, with no recourse.
Thanks for that but I'm more than aware of what a luddite is.
In contemporary thought[edit]
The title Luddite developed a secondary meaning: a "Luddite" is a term describing those opposed to, or slow to adopt or incorporate into their lifestyle, industrialisation, automation, computerisation or new technologies in general.[23] In 1956, there is a parliamentary speech that said 'Organised workers were by no means wedded to a Luddite Philosophy'.[24]
More recently, the term Neo-Luddism has emerged to describe opposition to many forms of technology.[25] According to a manifesto drawn up by the Second Luddite Congress (April 1996; Barnesville, Ohio), Neo-Luddism is "a leaderless movement of passive resistance to consumerism and the increasingly bizarre and frightening technologies of the Computer Age." [26]
This is what happens when you actively welcome an abundance of technology into your home and are dealing with private companies. There's room for some technology but I really don't understand the desire to integrate every aspect of life with it at the detriment to privacy. The best way to avoid this is by not buying this stuff.
I assume they form to write the Ideology and people choose to follow aspects of that. There wouldn't be enforcement of all the aspects just the ones you accept.
Well, to me anyway, the notion isn't a technological one, but one of social and political issues. It's practically a proven fact that if there is any way to get at this data, government entities will try for it. I don't care what Samsung thinks they have on me, at least, not directly. I care that other people can, and will, potentially get that data and can use it for their own agenda.
Technology isn't the fundamental issue here really. It's more like cynicism and the innate distrust of people.
daedalus wrote: Well, to me anyway, the notion isn't a technological one, but one of social and political issues. It's practically a proven fact that if there is any way to get at this data, government entities will try for it. I don't care what Samsung thinks they have on me, at least, not directly. I care that other people can, and will, potentially get that data and can use it for their own agenda.
Technology isn't the fundamental issue here really. It's more like cynicism and the innate distrust of people.
Well until you can change society I'll stick with the easier option of not buying any stuff like this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25018225 LG is investigating allegations that some of its TVs send details about their owners' viewing habits back to the manufacturer even if the users have activated a privacy setting.
It follows a blog by a UK-based IT consultant who detailed how his Smart TV was sending data about which channels were being watched.
His investigation also indicated that the TVs uploaded information about the contents of devices attached to the TV.
So watch out if you downloaded something naughty, and played it on you x box or dvd player.
And if your doing something mucky not in front of the TV please.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Which is worse.?
LG saying look he watches porn on his TV.
OR Samsung listening to people having sex.?
Alex C wrote: There's some new Amazon device that sits in your house and does all sorts of things at your command. Provides information, controls devices, etc.
My immediate thought was "that fething robot is probably uploading people's lives to the NSA and listening for keywords to alert the authorities".
Not sure if I'm suffering from a mental disorder or if, these days, I'm justifiably paranoid...
Probably both.
Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
daedalus wrote: Well, to me anyway, the notion isn't a technological one, but one of social and political issues. It's practically a proven fact that if there is any way to get at this data, government entities will try for it.
Worse than that, Samsung are going to use this data to try and sell me stuff!
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Iron_Captain wrote: In the USA, you watch tv.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA TV WATCH YOU!!!
Oh wait...
That is in reverse now.
Reversed Russian reversal?
Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
Iron_Captain wrote: In the USA, you watch tv.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA TV WATCH YOU!!!
Oh wait...
That is in reverse now.
Reversed Russian reversal?
IN RUSSIA TV-is actually normal as it turns out. Huh. In cold war 2 everyone but america will join the reasonable country that does not watch its citizens watching porn! In soviet Russia YOU watch TV!
Kote!
Kandosii sa ka'rte, vode an.
Coruscanta a'den mhi, vode an.
Bal kote,Darasuum kote,
Jorso'ran kando a tome.
Sa kyr'am nau tracyn kad vode an.
Bal...
Motir ca'tra nau tracinya.
Gra'tua cuun hett su dralshy'a.
Aruetyc talyc runi'la trattok'a.
Sa kyr'am nau tracyn kad, vode an!
While i know some people will say it defeats the purpose, this is why i absolutely believe that any voice activated device should have a push button activation (like cars) prior to starting to "listen".
It may defeat the purpose with phones, etc., but i'd prefer my devices not listen in and dial home, when that dial home can be intercepted.
I like technology.
But technology just for technology's sake no.
Its hard to be awesome, when your playing with little plastic men. Welcome to Fantasy 40k
If you think your important, in the great scheme of things. Do the water test.
Put your hands in a bucket of warm water,
then pull them out fast. The size of the hole shows how important you are.
I think we should roll some dice, to see if we should roll some dice, To decide if all this dice rolling is good for the game.
You just need to find a way to make "Kill" and "Jews" every 5th or 6th word when talking, just to see what happens. If you get a bunch of WWII history stuff show up on your "viewing suggestions" screen, you'll know something fishy is going on.
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
H.B.M.C. wrote: You just need to find a way to make "Kill" and "Jews" every 5th or 6th word when talking, just to see what happens. If you get a bunch of WWII history stuff show up on your "viewing suggestions" screen, you'll know something fishy is going on.
No no no. That's not cause for concern. The concern is when it starts advertizing pizza ovens, construction materials, lawyers specializing in hate crimes, etc...
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
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