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Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads (www.tomshardware.com)
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A hacker reverse-engineered his own Samsung TV and found alarming spying activity, including code that used connected devices' microphones to listen to users.

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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's almost certainly in the legalese they used in the EULA everyone that uses them agreed to. What it won't be, is clear that this was the intention.