This is not disturbing at all , unless the thought of your Smarter-Than-You iDevices spying on you and recording your conversations and your texts and your darkest thoughts inside your brain is disturbing, in which case, yeah, you might find this a little concerning. As The Daily Beast
FWIW, if you have ever used anything with voice recognition built in, you've already been doing this- whether it's Siri or Onstar or your voice activated Google search on your Android or any of the multitude of devices that use VR. All these companies use the same server for the VR, nuance.com. Their servers translate the commands and sends them back- it's not like the VR software is built into the device. Also too, if your command is some sort of search request, the device also has to send that request to a third party- in all likelihood Google, to do that search. Again, it's not built into the device. All Samsung did was spell out in a bit more detail the process that all of these services use- and that info has been in their user agreement since the advent of smart TVs, it just took a couple years for anyone to notice and freak out about it. VR is also an opt-in service on a smart TV- don't like it? Don't turn it on. And if you do enable it- pay attention to the big mic symbol that will show up on your screen when the VR function is active- that's the only time it's listening.
Well, if you use the voice feature to search the interwebz, then data from voice capture will be sent out to a <em>third party</em> internet search engine. That would come under that disclaimer.
Similarly, if you want to search for a show by name, your TV&#039;s going to have to send your search terms out to a listings provider.
Of course, it would really help if they were more precise in their language so one could distinguish between this kind of strictly necessary sharing and them just sending a captured wav file off to wespyonyou.com for blackmail purposes (all kinds of arrangements that could be made which would benefit Samsung without this technically being qualified as &quot;selling&quot; your data).
Protip, though - Samsung isn&#039;t the only one, they just got noticed because it was a recent addition to their terms. LG at least has always said they&#039;ll share your voice.
On the other hand, there are a lot of software engineers out there nowadays with a lot of experience processing enormous amounts of data.
On the third hand, was it really much comfort to the inhabitants of East Germany that the Stasi didn&#039;t have the manpower to listen to all their phone recordings?
Dammit, what was that science fiction short story about a television that would broadcast from people&#039;s homes rather than into them when they were turned off?
In other words, while I am watching the porn and then mimic the porn I could be making a porn.by gawd I want paid especially iffin Rush or pee wee Herman watches the porn and whacks to it
Translated, it means that when you command the TV to switch to the channel or show that you want, the device passes your request on to your cable provider or a streaming service (the third party) so that it serves up the content that you requested. Pressing buttons on your remote does exactly the same thing. You have been using devices that communicate this information for many years now, ever since you got your cable or dish or streaming device. In the present example, you (the first party) are using the software in your Samsung smart TV (the second party) to communicate with your cable provider or streaming service (the third party). These content providers are the &quot;third party&quot; that is referenced in the policy.
In the case of a device like your smart TV that is voice-enabled, there is a bit more involved than just understanding the IR codes sent by a remote control. Much more information is retained in the device since it stores your spoken commands as part of its &quot;training&quot; process. (The device has to be &quot;trained&quot; to recognize your voice so that it can accurately interpret your commands.) Voice recognition is much more memory- and processor-intensive than recognizing pulsed IR codes. It also needs to store your uttered command each time briefly in working memory for the few milliseconds that it takes to interpret it and translate it into a machine command. So another thing that the policy is meant to show is that you have consented to having your vocal commands stored in the device, even though the length of time that it stores most of them is exceedingly brief.
At the present time, with the heightened concern over surveillance via consumer devices, the wording of the policy sounds ominous. But that is all it is referring to.
Can you imagine the terabytes of drivel those servers will have to process? Probably almost as much the the crumby programming our brains are sifting through.
OW! But, funny.
Reverse porn!
FWIW, if you have ever used anything with voice recognition built in, you&#039;ve already been doing this- whether it&#039;s Siri or Onstar or your voice activated Google search on your Android or any of the multitude of devices that use VR. All these companies use the same server for the VR, nuance.com. Their servers translate the commands and sends them back- it&#039;s not like the VR software is built into the device. Also too, if your command is some sort of search request, the device also has to send that request to a third party- in all likelihood Google, to do that search. Again, it&#039;s not built into the device. All Samsung did was spell out in a bit more detail the process that all of these services use- and that info has been in their user agreement since the advent of smart TVs, it just took a couple years for anyone to notice and freak out about it. VR is also an opt-in service on a smart TV- don&#039;t like it? Don&#039;t turn it on. And if you do enable it- pay attention to the big mic symbol that will show up on your screen when the VR function is active- that&#039;s the only time it&#039;s listening.
Well, if you use the voice feature to search the interwebz, then data from voice capture will be sent out to a <em>third party</em> internet search engine. That would come under that disclaimer.
Similarly, if you want to search for a show by name, your TV&#039;s going to have to send your search terms out to a listings provider.
Of course, it would really help if they were more precise in their language so one could distinguish between this kind of strictly necessary sharing and them just sending a captured wav file off to wespyonyou.com for blackmail purposes (all kinds of arrangements that could be made which would benefit Samsung without this technically being qualified as &quot;selling&quot; your data).
Protip, though - Samsung isn&#039;t the only one, they just got noticed because it was a recent addition to their terms. LG at least has always said they&#039;ll share your voice.
&quot;TV, stop sharing my sensitive data&quot; &quot;I&#039;m sorry Dave, I&#039;m afraid I can&#039;t do that&quot;
On the one hand, yeah.
On the other hand, there are a lot of software engineers out there nowadays with a lot of experience processing enormous amounts of data.
On the third hand, was it really much comfort to the inhabitants of East Germany that the Stasi didn&#039;t have the manpower to listen to all their phone recordings?
You can do a lot with that one knob.
Dammit, what was that science fiction short story about a television that would broadcast from people&#039;s homes rather than into them when they were turned off?
<i>but what&#039;s this really distracting us from?</i>
I&#039;ll take BENGHAZI!!!1!!1! for $400 Alex
In other words, while I am watching the porn and then mimic the porn I could be making a porn.by gawd I want paid especially iffin Rush or pee wee Herman watches the porn and whacks to it
&quot;transmitted to a third party&quot;
Translated, it means that when you command the TV to switch to the channel or show that you want, the device passes your request on to your cable provider or a streaming service (the third party) so that it serves up the content that you requested. Pressing buttons on your remote does exactly the same thing. You have been using devices that communicate this information for many years now, ever since you got your cable or dish or streaming device. In the present example, you (the first party) are using the software in your Samsung smart TV (the second party) to communicate with your cable provider or streaming service (the third party). These content providers are the &quot;third party&quot; that is referenced in the policy.
In the case of a device like your smart TV that is voice-enabled, there is a bit more involved than just understanding the IR codes sent by a remote control. Much more information is retained in the device since it stores your spoken commands as part of its &quot;training&quot; process. (The device has to be &quot;trained&quot; to recognize your voice so that it can accurately interpret your commands.) Voice recognition is much more memory- and processor-intensive than recognizing pulsed IR codes. It also needs to store your uttered command each time briefly in working memory for the few milliseconds that it takes to interpret it and translate it into a machine command. So another thing that the policy is meant to show is that you have consented to having your vocal commands stored in the device, even though the length of time that it stores most of them is exceedingly brief.
At the present time, with the heightened concern over surveillance via consumer devices, the wording of the policy sounds ominous. But that is all it is referring to.
Does Samsung make a Brain-Dead TV? You know, for the Texas market?
Can you imagine the terabytes of drivel those servers will have to process? Probably almost as much the the crumby programming our brains are sifting through.
I think my Samsung TV&#039;s are the dumb kind. If I want to be spied on, I prefer the good ol&#039; method of mining my internet cache.
Smart Teevees means it&#039;s perfectly acceptable to have sex with them, right? Asking for an appliance friend.
You probably shouldn&#039;t worry about that Samsung shower speaker or Samsung bidet either.