Get your tinfoil hats ready... Team Trump thinks their TV's are spying on them

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Conway was asked whether evidence showed Trump Tower had been targeted by a wiretap, and she didn’t answer the question but suggested surveillance could be conducted through electronic devices such as phone and TVs.


Jon Meacham, executive editor at Random House, said the “melancholy reality” was that Conway was working to undermine trust in government and institutions, which he said could trigger paranoid fantasies in people with mental health issues.


“The historical analogy here is the birther conspiracy,” Meacham said, referring to an anti-Obama conspiracy theory promoted by Trump. “We don’t have to go back very far, right?”


Brzezinski said Conway’s comments demonstrated why she would no longer be welcome as a guest on “Morning Joe.”


“She doesn’t believe in what she is saying,”Brzezinski said. “The reason we won’t have her on this show is because a lot of what she says is either not true or she has no idea what she is saying, and it ends up being debunked by the very White House she works for. During the campaign, when she was very adept at transferring Trump’s message and talented in some ways, and would get off the set and say she needed to take a shower, and she would call him her client. She doesn’t believe in what she’s saying.”


Brzezinski said Conway’s integrity and credibility issues demonstrated a fundamental flaw in the Trump administration.
 
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"But in an interview on Sunday with a columnist for The Record of Bergen County, N.J., she said that Mr. Obama’s spying efforts against Mr. Trump could have been far more extensive than a simple telephone wiretap.

“What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other,” Ms. Conway told the paper. “You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets — any number of ways.”

Surveillance can even be carried out with “microwaves that turn into cameras,” she added. “We know this is a fact of modern life.” "

I don't believe this horsesh!t for one second and I can prove it is absolutely false, just ask my toaster, she'll tell you the truth!
 

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Conway was asked whether evidence showed Trump Tower had been targeted by a wiretap, and she didn’t answer the question but suggested surveillance could be conducted through electronic devices such as phone and TVs.


Jon Meacham, executive editor at Random House, said the “melancholy reality” was that Conway was working to undermine trust in government and institutions, which he said could trigger paranoid fantasies in people with mental health issues.


“The historical analogy here is the birther conspiracy,” Meacham said, referring to an anti-Obama conspiracy theory promoted by Trump. “We don’t have to go back very far, right?”


Brzezinski said Conway’s comments demonstrated why she would no longer be welcome as a guest on “Morning Joe.”


“She doesn’t believe in what she is saying,”Brzezinski said. “The reason we won’t have her on this show is because a lot of what she says is either not true or she has no idea what she is saying, and it ends up being debunked by the very White House she works for. During the campaign, when she was very adept at transferring Trump’s message and talented in some ways, and would get off the set and say she needed to take a shower, and she would call him her client. She doesn’t believe in what she’s saying.”


Brzezinski said Conway’s integrity and credibility issues demonstrated a fundamental flaw in the Trump administration.
My wife is a special ed teacher and is very sensitive about using the word 'retarded', so I stopped using it probably 20 years ago. But that's over now, Kellyanne Conway is retarded.
 

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you seriously need to upgrade your media outlets...

Disable this feature to stop your Samsung Smart TV from listening to you
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/samsung-smart-tv-spying/

Editors' note, March 7, 2017:This post is getting considerable attention in March 2017, now that a cache of Wikileaks documents has allegedly revealed that the CIA might be using these same Samsung TVs to spy on you. However, if that's true, it's unlikely that the steps in this guide would protect you. Read more about the so-called "Weeping Angel" hack.

Original post:

It sounds like something straight out of George Orwell's 1984. Samsung's Smart TV privacy policy, which most people never bother reading, reveals that your shiny new television set may be capable of spying on you. Samsung warns that customers should "be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition."

It sounds scary, but it's a bit overblown. Many devices have similar speech features that are always listening; that includes the Moto X, Nexus devices, Amazon Echo, Microsoft Kinect and even the iPhone(when the device is plugged in and the Hey, Siri command is enabled).

This so-called scandal also affects only a small number of Samsung Smart TV models. While most of Samsung's Smart TVs have some sort of voice function, almost all of them require you press the microphone button on the remote before it starts listening. The models that can recognize your voice are the ones that include a built-in camera and microphone, such as the Samsung PN60F8500. The TV won't actually begin to process anything you say, however, until you say a voice command, such as "Hi TV."

Regardless, if you are fearful that Samsung and an unnamed third-party partner (the company actually translating your voice to text) are listening to your conversations, you can simply turn off the Voice Recognition feature.

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.