I read recently that the FBI arrested a stalker who had hacked into the cameras in monitors and was watching women work on their PC’s. Apparently, a fair number worked naked. Most of these woman had no idea their monitor contained a camera. The answer is put tape over it.
I don’t have a television. I guess that means I have something to hide, that I am ant-social.
Soon we will be required to have the latest telescreen.
Long live Big Brother.
We must eliminate the Emmanuel Goldsteins.
Big Brother is Watching.
I’m far more concerned about my smart phone than my smart TV.
‘Course, in my case it may be because all we use our TV for is watching DVD’s and BlueRays. It has not internet connectivity.
If I ever needed to connect it to the web, I would add a physical kill switch for the mic and one for the camera.
When they call something “smart” they’re not talking about the buyer.
I have tape over the camera feature on my laptop, tablets and phone. When I want to take a picture it comes off and then goes back on. The TVs I have are 2010 vintage so I don’t know if they incorporate a camera, certainly I didn’t request such a feature.
I’m not sure how these data are transmitted from my TV back to the broadcast stations. No cable here.
These threads were posted recently.
Today In Creepy Privacy Policies, Samsung’s Eavesdropping TV
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3255476/posts
Samsung’s warning: Our Smart TVs record your living room chatter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3255625/posts
I heard that decades ago.
Paranoid drug addicts have been sayingnthat for decades.
Bkmrk.
No TV, no problem.
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Unlikely. Don’t hook your TV up to the internet, disable the wireless if it has one. Find out its MAC address and disable it on your router.
Don’t buy TV’s with embedded camera’s and microphones. If you must, take a drill to the camera and the mic, then send a continuous video and audio of Obama giving speeches.
I have a camera, if i have any need to do any youtube stuff.
My tv isn’t a smart tv, and i won’t have one, either.
My laptop was ordered without a camera installed, and i will only buy one if it does NOT have one, including if i haver to order it that way..
My glass-faced phone has a face/owner recognition program, but I got rid of that, as much as one can, with all that crap programming that comes with the darn thing.
Now, there may be one unknown to me in that cable dvr box, but I do not have the spec sheets, so i can’t say.
I know of a USArmy former tech/fellow worker who could hook up a tv, in the picture tube days, to make it a camera. Nowadays, with this darn queer in the White House, anything is possible.
If it does have an Interwebs connection...
My phone company keeps sending me mail advertising converting my home to a “smart home”, where everything is connected to the web.
I am reminded of an old cartoon from 45 years ago “The GREAT WASTELAND looks back.”
It was the views of what was going on from the TV’s point of view.
My Momma did not believe in TVs. When my dad died, mom kept his TV, but put a tablecloth over it and draped it down over the screen, as if to cover up the “eye” looking at her. She finally gave it to my sister to get rid of it.
Why would I care if someone is watching me watch TV? My neighbors can just look at their window and see it. If that is all they have to do, I’m glad to give them such a fascinating job.
Except I don’t watch TV but whatever...