The new Samsung HDTV has hard-wired camera and microphone, plus face recognition and other unprecedented features.
Is Your TV Watching You? Latest Models Raise Concerns -- MSNBC
Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin microphones, face tracking and speech recognition. While these features give you unprecedented control over an HDTV, the devices themselves, more similar than ever to a personal computer, may allow hackers or even Samsung to see and hear you and your family, and collect extremely personal data.
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My Comment: I guess CIA Director Petraeus was onto something.