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Samsung Smart TV privacy policy warns that customers should quote 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 like something straight out of George Orwell's 1984 but it's a bit overblown most Android devices and even the Microsoft Kinect have similar always on listening features plus the problem only affects certain Samsung TVs that include a microphone and built-in camera such as this 60-inch Plasma from 2013 while most of samsung's Smart TVs do have some sort of voice feature almost all of them including this 4k model from 2014 require you press the microphone button on the remote before it starts listening regardless if you're scared that Samsung and some third party are listening to your conversations you can easily turn off the voice recognition feature go to the menu and select smart features then simply scroll to voice recognition and switch it off you will no longer be able to use the high TV command to activate voice features but you can still use them by pressing the microphone button on your remote for more how-to s like this one be sure to check out how to calm you can also reach out to me on Twitter with any questions or comments I'm dan Graziano CNET thanks for watching