Samsung Smart TVs have built-in facial and gesture recognition capabilities. Samsung’s privacy policy says voice-recognition will capture and send data to a third party. Samsung says the captured information won’t be used for marketing purposes. Verizon applied for a U.S. patent for creating a “detection zone” that would study what was happening near a TV, then serve related advertising. Some pundits call this the self-surveillance state, on account of all of the information, images and videos that our devices now collect and transmit.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/slouching-toward-1984-p-2061