Samsung's Smart TV Data Encryption Claims Proven False
After our recent discovery that our Samsung TV was sending voice recognition data over the internet unencrypted, they sent the following response:
“Samsung takes consumer privacy very seriously and our products are designed with privacy in mind. Our latest Smart TV models are equipped with data encryption and a software update will soon be available for download on other models."
Our TV was a UE46ES8000, just over 2 years old. Samsung indicated above that our telly was quite old and didn’t feature the latest security features. Not ideal, but at least they were aware of the problem; had fixed it on later models and were offering on a fix for early TVs. Fair enough. But after 18 years in IT security, I’m quite cynical. So we bit the bullet and spent nearly £2,000 on a brand new Samsung TV a UE55HU7500, advertised widely as a current model.
