Your voice-to-text speech is recorded and sent to strangers

[art_carnage]

@Skeptic

Except you don’t actually know that. What a smart TV does depends on the make, model and software revision. There is no universal rule that prevents a smart TV from listening to you, perhaps even for reasons you haven’t though of, for various analytical purposes, or to track who’s watching, or who knows. Once you click on the ELUA (or even if you don’t) all bets are off.

It would be pointless to transmit everything the mic picks up. It serves no purpose. If it were transmitting all the time, there would be no need for cue words, or an activation button. Just because you don’t comprehend the logic behind the technology, doesn’t automatically make it evil. And, of course, since this is going over the local wi-fi, it’s pretty trivial to check if the TV is streaming data just because someone is talking.

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@art_carnage

And, of course, since this is going over the local wi-fi, it’s pretty trivial to check if the TV is streaming data just because someone is talking.

It is also a good way to check if the TV is not hacked and streaming data to some adversary.

Anything with a microphone and connectivity can be used as a potential bug (or “remote acoustic telemetry”).