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Samsung: Our TVs? Spying on you? Ha Ha! Just a joke of course

Martin Maloney
FAIL

Orwell updated

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength,

Snooping is privacy.

"...of its privacy policy..."

should read

"...of its violation of privacy policy..."

Not to be outdone by Samsung, LG is up to the same trick:

LG Will Take The 'Smart' Out Of Your Smart TV If You Don't Agree To Share Your Viewing And Search Data With Third Parties

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140511/17430627199/lg-will-take-smart-out-your-smart-tv-if-you-dont-agree-to-share-your-viewing-search-data-with-third-parties.shtml

Here's something that no one seems to have picked up on: back in the 80s, the puny 8-bit computers of the day could convert speech to text. Thirty years later, why doesn't a "SMART TV" have the built-in "intelligence" to handle voice commands?

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