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.


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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.
Careful, Robert. They're working on that.
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.
Inner Party members will be able to turn it off, of course...
This.Is.Wrong. Thank you for this... this is just horrible.
“We can work together because we have a really huge task before us, transforming America and the World.”
to quote FFP
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...
Duct tape and a little water. Cover the lens, short out the mic.
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!
I will have to start cleaning my guns in front on the TV.
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!"