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Samsung TVs might use the mics of connected devices to listen to you, researcher says
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Researcher claims Samsung TVs may use soundbars to listen in
A security researcher using the handle log4j on X has published findings suggesting that a 2025 Samsung TV running Tizen software reports sound-event telemetry, including counts of dog-barking and baby-crying detections, to a Samsung cloud server.
The researcher also claims that Samsung TVs without a microphone will look for a connected device that has one, such as a soundbar or a Bluetooth speaker. log4j's own notes state that the counters do not prove an alert was ever shown and that the full lifecycle remains untraced.
Another user, ngxson, reported watching a rooted Tizen TV open its microphone for five seconds and then go quiet, adding that a stock TV might behave differently.
What Samsung has said The underlying detection features are not secret.
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