It’s fine. IT’S ALL FINE.
So this tweet has so far been retweeted about 13,000 times.
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 telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plate commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.
The furore is over the Samsung Smart TV's voice recognition feature.
It allows users to control the TV using a microphone. It appears the "third party" in question is probably the company that produces Samsung's speech-to-text conversion, according to Corynne McSherry, the intellectual property director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She told the Daily Beast: "If I were the customer, I might like to know who that third party was, and I’d definitely like to know whether my words were being transmitted in a secure form."
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