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Watching you watch: the tracking ecosystem of over-the-top TV streaming devices, Moghaddam et al., CCS’19 The results from this paper are all too predictable: channels on Over-The-Top (OTT) s…
Hackers can also take control of unsecured smart TVs and use them as a bridgehead to access your router and form their get into your computer or smartphone, the Oregon FBI warned.
Smart TVs have never been more affordable. Turns out there's a reason for that.
Samba TV, which has deals to put its software on sets made by about a dozen TV brands, uses viewing data to make personalized show recommendations. But that’s not the big draw for advertisers.
Samba TV, which has deals to put its software on sets made by about a dozen TV brands, uses viewing data to make personalized show recommendations. But that’s not the big draw for advertisers.
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Samba TV, which has deals to put its software on sets made by about a dozen TV brands, uses viewing data to make personalized show recommendations. But that’s not the big draw for advertisers.
One revelation from the cache of 8,000 CIA documents: the CIA can turn a voice-recognition feature of some Samsung TVs into a covert listening device.
The malware, developed during a hackathon between British and American spies, turns ordinary smart TVs into listening devices.
A recent report says Samsung’s Internet-connected Smart TV might be listening in on your conversations and transmitting them to a third party via a voice control feature meant to change channels, adjust volume, browse apps and more.
Shane Harris of The Daily Beast noticed last week that the Smart TV’s privacy policy includes the following clause: “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.”
The company confirmed to The Huffington Post that the feature does send voice control requests to a third party, which then searches for results and returns them to the user’s device. Samsung doesn’t store or sell the voice data, she said.
VIZIO, Inc., one of the world’s largest manufacturers and sellers of internet-connected “smart” televisions, has agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General that it installed software on its TVs to collect viewing data on 11 million consumer TVs without consumers’ knowledge or consent.