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Your point about a smartphone's capabilities is well taken. But the TV straight-up says that your personal information will be captured and transmitted to a thi
by millstone 12y ago
Your point about a smartphone's capabilities is well taken. But the TV straight-up says that your personal information will be captured and transmitted to a third party.
I value my privacy, and trust (hope?) that my phone isn't transmitting that sort of stuff. If it did, I think it would be discovered and made public very quickly, and I would switch phones! But since the TV straight out says that it transmits my personal information, and I have no reason to doubt it, I'll be sure to not use that TV, or at least not connect it to the Internet.
We can trust others to safeguard our privacy, as a sort of calculated risk. But this TV is just saying out loud that it won't do that, so I'll avoid that model.
- fulafel 12y agoAre you not counting Googhle or Apple as third parties?
- mmmm 12y agoDo they send sound from your phone to their servers non stop? If so, I'm switching from iPhone straight away.
- budu3 12y agoThe Moto X has a "Google Now" functionality where the continuously listens for you commands. Whatever is ships your sound off the Google server is another question.
- SlashmanX 12y agoThat's not how that works. There's something on the chip to just detect keywords, it's not a "always listening" thing
- noamyoungerm 12y agoSo does Google Now when you enable voice recognition inside other apps.