[caconym_]

Didn't Samsung literally get caught uploading screenshots of content played on their TVs to some server? Maybe it was some other company?

These days, unless you take drastic measures to defend yourself from spyware embedded in consumer technology or forgo it all together, it seems that you'll be subject to this kind of surreptitious abuse as a matter of course.

[simonh]

Worse than that, audio recordings from people's living rooms:

"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 through your use of Voice Recognition."

[cj]

> that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition

Could also mean they're using AWS Transcribe (or similar) instead of rolling their own speech to text engine.

But that's only the most optimistic interpretation.