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Instructions to turn off tv voice commands

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Instructions to turn off tv voice commands

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To do this, head to the Settings menu and select Smart Features. Then scroll down to Voice Recognition and switch it off. While you will no longer be able to use the "Hi TV" command to activate the voice features, you can still access them by pressing the microphone button on your remote.

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This video has a news report on the issue.

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You Will Never Trust Your Television Again

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In the wake of alternative media, mainstream outlets are now finally admitting that 'smart' televisions available to the public are capable of spying on its viewers. A CNN article published yesterday entitled Your TV might be watching you says: The flaws in Samsung Smart TVs, which have now been patched, enabled hackers to remotely turn on the TVs' built-in cameras without leaving any trace of it on the screen.

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The fourth part of information I found was all about how we can prevent our information from being stolen. One way you can prevent the loss of information is by disabling all of the voice and video recording features on your TV and other smart electronics around your house. Another thing you can do is put security systems on all of your electronics to stop your information from being stolen. The most effective solution though, is just to not buy a smart electronic in the first place.

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The third part of my research was all about what the government is trying to do to stop the theft of people's personal information. One thing that I found that kept coming up was that many do not think that the government is doing enough to protect people's information. What alot of goevernment agencies are doing is trying to find out the ways that hackers can get the information so they can come up with solutions to the problems.

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The information I found in the second part of my research was mainly focused on how hackers and foreign companies are able to get a hold of your personal information and send it out to wherever they feel like. One startling thing that I found was that there was a marathon in Ireland, and a researcher with a scanner made out of $75 worth of parts was able to steal over 560 runners personal information off their FitBit. Another startling thing I found was that hackers can also get into your home data cloud through one device. In one instance, a baby monitor was hacked and the hacker gained access to the home security system and spoke threats through the monitor and moved the camera.

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Some information I found in the first part of the research for the essay was how the electronics track and record your information. Nowadays, cameras and voicerecorders are on any appliance you buy. The TV, the phone, and even the refridgerator. They are meant to help ease the process of working these electronics, but pose a threat when they could be tracking your information. The FitBit company has a plan where they give you life insurance in exchange for the readings the device picks up. There are numerous web article authors that repeatedly say that our information is given away on a routine basis. Companies like Samsung and LG say they are only using the info for reccomendations, but haven't had any evidence to prove it.

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"Smart fridges" like the $6000 Samsung " Family Hub " refrigerator promise to be everything from an entertainment center to a social hub. But please, don't buy these things. Buying a smart fridge is a dumb idea.

I saw the "Family Hub" fridge at CES 2016, and was assured by a Samsung representative that it wasn't a joke. It is a serious product you can now buy in stores, but it probably shouldn't be.

What Is a "Smart Fridge"?

A "smart fridge" looks like a normal fridge with a tablet glued to the front of it. The idea of a smart fridge is kind of cool, in a way. Playing music, displaying the weather, showing a calendar, functioning as a digital whiteboard, and putting together a shopping list are all activities that might make sense on a fridge. Some other features, like mirroring your TV's display on your fridge or viewing photos of its contents from your smartphone, make less sense to some-but none of this really matters.

A true "smart fridge" in the future might monitor itself to provide a live-updated list of the contents, track expiration, and maybe order more groceries when you're running out. It might more intelligently adjust cooling levels depending on what you have in the fridge. Today's smart fridges don't do any of this, although the tablet does provide an app you can use to manually track your groceries and order more.

Problem One: You'll Stop Getting Updates and the Software Will Fall Apart

Even if you think smart fridge features sound great, there's one big problem: You have no guarantee the fridge will still be getting updates in a few years, or even a year from now.

A lot of "smart" devices, including smart TVs, have a similar problem. You could buy the fridge, use it happily for a year, after which its apps get ignored by the manufacturer and become unable to connect to all the web services they depend on. Your smart fridge may gradually just become dumb.

This isn't just a theory. This Google Answers thread catalogs a case of this problem that's already happened. People purchased a Samsung smart fridge back in 2012 and, by 2014, they could no longer connect to Google Calendar on their fridge. Google announced a new way to connect to Google Calendar, but Samsung never bothered updating the fridge. After two years, that fridge was apparently out of date and "no longer supported". Over a year later, after a lot of customers complained, it looks like Samsung did issue an update. But during the previous period, Samsung representatives merely offered helpful advice like "Have you tried rebooting your refrigerator?". The above screenshot is taken from that thread.

The $6000 Samsung Family Hub is based on Tizen, so it doesn't even run Android apps. If Samsung decides to move to another platform or app developers leave Tizen behind, included applications on the fridge may stop working as they don't see updates. Heck, these manufacturers can barely keep their phones up to date after a few years-it's hard to imagine they'll put more work into a fridge.

Even in a best case scenario with excellent support, it's hard to imagine the Family Hub refrigerator still functioning well in five or ten years. Ideally, you'd keep your refrigerator much longer than that.

Problem Two: You'll Stop Getting Updates and Your Fridge Will Be Vulnerable

RELATED: Smart TVs Are Stupid: Why You Don't Really Want a Smart TV

Updates aren't just about functionality-they're about security, too. We've already seen that manufacturers are bad at securing many of these smart devices, and even smart TVs can be compromised.

If your fridge doesn't reliably receive security updates, or stops getting them entirely, it's possible your fridge could be compromised and become infected with malware. This could happen very easily-when you use an outdated web browser app on the fridge and visit a compromised or malicious website, it could infect your fridge.

A fridge infection could be a serious problem. If you access services like your email and calendar on the fridge-that's the point, after all-an attacker could gain access to your email and use that to access other accounts. Your fridge could also just become part of a botnet used to attack and infect others.

Problem Three: You Can Get a Professional Quality Fridge for the Same Price

When it comes down to it, the best argument against smart fridges is the cost. Samsung's Family Hub refrigerator costs $6000, which is a lot of money. You can buy a solid fridge for $500, or a high quality one for about $1000-certainly less than $2000. And those will last a lot longer than the three or so years your smart fridge will function fully for.

But let's say money is no object, and you want the best fridge you can possibly buy. For that much money, you can get a high-end, commercial-quality fridge from a manufacturer like Sub-Zero. That will last a lot longer and be a better fridge than a $6000 smart fridge. If you're looking for a high-end luxury appliance, buy a professional-quality fridge instead of a smart fridge.

All the Above Problems Are Solved With a Tablet

Let's say you really want Google Calendar and recipe apps and other features on your fridge. That's fine. But you can get all these features by sticking a tablet to your fridge. Mount an iPad-or even an Android or Windows tablet-on your fridge, and you'll have a homemade smart fridge with better software. You won't have cameras inside your fridge that let you view photos of your fridge's contents, but unless you're willing to pay $6000 to have that one feature for a year or two, you may just have to live without it for awhile.

Mounting a tablet can be quick and simple. Put an iPad or Android tablet in a case, attach velcro or 3M Command strips to that case, and stick it to your fridge. That should work just fine. You could also just get a dedicated fridge mount.

You could even take the tablet off your fridge if you want to sit at your table and read something or have a recipe nearby. It's more flexible than a smart fridge.

An iPad or Android tablet will have much more available apps than a smart fridge, and iPads in particular will receive updates for years longer than you could expect a smart fridge to receive updates for. When your tablet gets old, you can just get a new tablet for your existing fridge rather than discarding your entire refrigerator and buying another one for $6000.

Smart fridges might be cool one day, but we're just not sold on them yet. Paying thousands of dollars extra for a worse tablet than an iPad just doesn't make any sense. If the smart features didn't cost thousands of dollars extra, the drawbacks might be easier to stomach.

Chris Hoffman is Editor in Chief of How-To Geek. He's written about technology for nearly a decade and was a PCWorld columnist for two years. Since 2011, Chris has written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than 500 million times---and that's just here at How-To Geek. Chris Hoffman
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Why Buying a Smart Fridge Is a Dumb Idea

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"Smart fridges" like the $6000 Samsung " Family Hub " refrigerator promise to be everything from an entertainment center to a social hub. But please, don't buy these things. Buying a smart fridge is a dumb idea. I saw the "Family Hub" fridge at CES 2016, and was assured by a Samsung representative that it wasn't a joke.

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I chose the topic privacy and electronics because it is a very current and growing problem that is affecting people today.