• Is the Samsung “peeping Tom” allegation pure BS – or just mostly so?

    Posted on June 10, 2017 at 19:27 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    I’ve read it all. That paragon of technical insight, England’s The Sun, reports that “Samsung’s ‘peeping Tom’ smartphones can watch what you do on the web while monitoring your emails to target you with ads”

    They go onto to explain:

    Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group warned that “Samsung want to get to know you – but they are behaving like a peeping Tom.. Samsung have taken spying on their customers to a whole new level.”

    And then there’s a garbled description of Web beacons, with no explanation of how Samsung injects the wayward pixels into messages, ads or websites.

    If there’s any meat here, I don’t see it. Tinfoil hats are fine, but at least there should be some tin in the foil, eh?

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