Giant bacteria FIVE THOUSAND times bigger than normal are discovered in a Caribbean mangrove swamp - and.вЂIt is the wrong way to go about it, and even if you do opt out, you canвЂ™t guarantee ,вЂ™ she said. Renate Samson slammed Samsung for forcing people to вЂopt outвЂ™ of recordings, rather than giving them the option to opt in. Its privacy policy says that, if the feature is turned off: вЂWhile Samsung will not collect your spoken word, Samsung may still collect associated texts and other usage data so that we can evaluate the performance of the feature and improve it.вЂ™ However, even then, the firm collects certain information. Users can stop Samsung from recording their conversations by turning voice recognition off. вЂThe fear is they could be building up a pattern of your preferences, or learning your voice,вЂ™ he said. Professor Peter Sommer, a digital forensics expert who has lectured at the London School of Economics, said there was вЂno reasonвЂ™ Samsung would not be storing up data. The technology giant remained tight-lipped about whether it then keeps usersвЂ™ data, only saying that it does not sell information on, and that it operates within privacy laws, which vary by country. The data is encrypted, but can be listened to by authorised Nuance staff. To give these complex commands, viewers must press a button on the remote control as they speak, and during that time, anything within вЂearshotвЂ™ will be collected. That firm then sends the data to a computer server, which translates it into text and sends a response. However, it can only process more complicated requests by recording usersвЂ™ speech and sending it to a third-party company called Nuance, in the US. The company says its televisions constantly listen out for simple commands to switch on or change channel, which are interpreted by the machine itself. More than half of smart TVs sold in Britain are made by Samsung. вЂSamsung say they are providing you with a service, but really the only service you need from a television is to watch programmes.вЂ™ Renate Samson, of Big Brother Watch, a campaign group named after this very notion, said: вЂThis thing is going to be in your house, listening in on you. Privacy campaigners drew comparisons between the TVs and вЂBig BrotherвЂ™ вЂ“ the authoritarian state which watches peopleвЂ™s every move in 1984, the dystopian novel by George Orwell.

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