Tag: TV

Shown at an event in Seoul on March 9, 2015, are LG Electronics Inc.’s 21-9 ratio curved monitors. (Yonhap)

Yes they are and they even admit to it:

Part of the Samsung Smarttv EULA: “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.”

This is part of their speech-recognition tech, which uses third parties (whose privacy policies Samsung doesn’t make any representations about) to turn your words into text.  [Boing Boing]

I recommend everyone read more about this over at the Marmot’s Hole.