Samsung’s Fascist ‘Smart TV’ Is Big Brother’s Wet Dream

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” – George Orwell, ‘1984’

from Digital Bucket.com:

There’s a fine line between being paranoid and being well informed. Woody Allen pretty much summed it up in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.

“There’s a word for people who think that everyone is conspiring against them.”

“That’s right — perceptive.”

Hey, we love TV. And HD LED TV’s continue to only get bigger, better and cheaper. But now there appears to be one HUGE catch. The most significant tech news breaking today is that Samsung’s new Smart TV is turning out to be Big Brother’s wet dream – you’ll find proof of it in Samsung’s own “privacy” warning:

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.

You read that right. Samsung’s Smart TV will record your private conversations and data and share that information with a “third party”. We’re not sure how that’s legal, much less ethical, but if you love TV – and privacy – as much as we do, we thought you should know.

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