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9th February 2015
01:03pm GMT

Left: Samsung SmartTV privacy policy, warning users not to discuss personal info in front of their TV Right: 1984 pic.twitter.com/osywjYKV3W
— Parker Higgins (@xor) February 8, 2015
Samsung have since released a statement that reads:
"If a consumer consents and uses the voice recognition feature, voice data is provided to a third party during a requested voice command search. At that time, the voice data is sent to a server, which searches for the requested content then returns the desired content to the TV."
In fairness to Samsung, they did say that it does not retain voice data or sell the audio being captured and that users will know when voice activation is in use by the microphone symbol that appears on screen.
Via BBC News 
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