Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Is Smart TV too Smart?

Does your Smart TV spy on you? If you have a Smart TV that uses voice recognition to enable voice commands, then you should be very careful about what you say in front of the internet-connected TV.

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‘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.’ Samsung SmartTV privacy policy. Although not confirmed, it is thought that the ‘third party’ mentioned is Nuance, a company which specializes in voice recognition, and which Samsung uses to bring their white label technology to its products.
Voice recognition technology is increasingly popular, the dangers of snooping become ever more pervasive. As Smart TVs are connected to the Internet, they are capable of collecting and transmitting our data. The online data becomes more available nowadays. Your personal and sensitive conversations would be recorded without noticing. The VPN service is good at protect your online privacy and security.
FlyVPN is one of the secure tools to protect your privacy and give you online freedom. It can hide and change your IP, securing your connection. Whether accessing the Internet on a public wireless LAN hotspot or on a wired LAN, you can effectively counter wiretapping by encrypting all transferred data and ensure maximum security. 
With a VPN, you can route all of your Internet data communication over a secure server, encrypted via SSL. FlyVPN offers free accounts for free trial, get them from http://www.flyvpn.com/freetrial . If you don’t know how to use, please read on the VPN tutorials.

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