"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 voice recognition."
__Samsung, 2015, addressing Smart TV customer concerns about 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. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. but at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You have to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
__1984, Chapter One
DonDiego has no fear.
In 1984 BigBrother did not allow a citizen to turn the television off. As long as one is permitted to turn these Samsung devices off, one can retain one's privacy.
Of course such matters are not limited to Samsung.
If one is using SIRI, . . . the personal assistant and knowledge navigator developed by SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center, as an offshoot of the DARPA-funded CALO project, . . . one should be aware that, f'rinstance, “the Siri dictation feature is sent to servers that reside in the US and that Apple, its related companies and agents have access to the contents of what is dictated.”
Why, heck fire ! DonDiego supposes that sorta data prob'ly goes lots of places beyond SRI's original partners, OpenTable, Gayot, CitySearch, BooRah, Yelp, Yahoo Local, Yandex, ReserveTravel, Localeze, Eventful, StubHub, LiveKick, MovieTickets, Rotten Tomatoes, the New York Times, Bing Answers, Wolfram Alpha, Evi, Bing, Yahoo, and Google by now.
And even if one has Siri in one's automobile, . . . one need not fear; one's automobile is one's friend, and anyone seeking one's immediate whereabouts only has one's safety in mind anyway.
DonDiego counsels users of two-way TVs and such conveniences as Siri not to fear. Anyone who obtains information through such technology has the best interest of everyone at heart.
