Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events

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Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events like dogs barking or babies crying. They also spy what you do on YouTube and other apps. Thanks abliterated DeepSeek.

turns out it classifies what audio it hears, before reporting back to samsung. sensor preferences, dog-barking and baby-crying event counters, and camera streaming duration are built into telemetry paths.

5:12 PM · Oct 24, 2026·

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