Samsung – Now TV watches YOU!

Samsung’s new “invention” – Now TV watches YOU! It has a mic and a camera and no indicators to tell you when they’re on. Not creepy enough for ya? How about “Samsung’s Terms of Service include a clause allowing third-party apps to make use of the monitoring system, and use the data gathered for their own purposes.” 2012 is the new 1984.

Bonfire of the Absurdities: After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.

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  • If I did get one of them there socialist tv's I'd hope to high Heaven that obama was watching so i could let him give me a visual proctological exam. that's right. i'd spread my cheeks right in his face. but only if i was SURE that homosexual couldn't touch me.

      • i reckon that's right flashing, they've already made it a crime to shoot one's own television set in the comfort of one's own home. THAT sets the legal precedent to convict any real American who shoots this kind of set.

  • I have the fix for that, don't buy their product. It's also amazing what a soldering iron can do to plastic CCD lenses and condenser mics.

  • “We can work together because we have a really huge task before us, transforming America and the World.”

  • Certainly adds to my desire to put an HD television in my bathroom - there in front of the throne. ;-)

  • It's all about going to the local hardware store and buying a roll of duct tape, covering both the video and audio with it. That'll shut it down post haste...

    • i was so sick about this it took me most of today before i came up with this one: In Soviet Amerika, tv watches you!

  • Damn. I remember that as a joke on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, I think it was their "News Of The Future - 20 years from now!", the far off date of 1988!

    "And now, as we close our broadcast day, we turn the cameras around, and we'll watch you for a while!"