And get you to pay for that privilege too! Not just "Smart TV's" but "Spy TV's". Not just recording DVR's but "Spy DVR's".
http://occupycorporatism.com/samsung-lg-verizon-use-smart-tvs-eavesdrop/
Samsung, LG & Verizon Use Smart TVs to Eavesdrop on You
By Susanne Posel – February 9, 2015
Samsung warns: “Please 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.....Two years ago, Jason Huntley, an information technologies consultant in the UK revealed how the LG smart television sends customer surveillance data to LG Electronics Inc.....Huntley discovered that regardless of turning the option off, data was still being sent to LG computer servers.
Huntley commented: “That’s a terrible implementation of the idea. It still sends the traffic but labels it saying I didn’t want it to be sent".....
Verizon patented technology that turns a DVR into a personal spying tool to watch Americans in their own homes.
Verizon calls this endeavor FierceCable that is able to display “acute sensitivity in customers’ living rooms: argument sounds prompt ads for marriage counseling,.....All cellular phones can interact with this device as a separate mode of surveillance....It is as simple as speaking a word, and the MCPS is activated.
What a wonderful brave new age we have entered, the Orwellian World.
Checked my Verizon FIOS account online to discover that their modem/routers are reporting your wifi settings to the company too. They know your encryption used, it's SSID even if marked as non broadcast, and your keycode. There is no valid reason or need for them to have that information, it should be private. It isn't enough they can monitor your flow of data and email already?! I'll be tossing my own private Linksys WRT54G type router on behind theirs now. I'll will turn off the Verizon wireless totally, and use my Linksys with it's private wifi setup for my wireless instead. Too bad Verizon is invading private wifi settings used on the rented routers, it lessens the privacy value of their service. This means they probably have access to any "shared" folders on your home networks too! Maybe to all your computer data. A second router behind the first should effectively block all that.
If that's not infuriating enough for you, then check this out. Verizon using their DVR to spy on your homelife "I can see you! I can hear you!"

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