Thinking about buying a new Samsung tv? Well you'd better turn off voice recognition, or everything you say will be documented

The growth and integration of Internet connected devices has brought the world closer together, and voice recognition technology is making interacting with such advanced technology incredibly easy, but it may also have a dark side that many Americans are unaware of.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Television sets that hear your commands may make button mashing a remote a thing of the past, but it also may herald the end of privacy.

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Samsung, one of the major makers of TVs, and the manufacturer of a new Internet connected TV with voice recognition programming, has ended the era where one's home is a private domain.

"You can control your SmartTV, and use many of its features, with voice commands," the guide to one of Samsung's newest TVs says.

"If you enable Voice Recognition, you can interact with your smart TV using your voice. To provide you the Voice Recognition feature, some voice commands may be transmitted (along with information about your device, including device identifiers) to a third-party service... 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."

Already this should strike consumers as a tool right from the pages of a dystopian work in which a person's freedoms aren't even safe nor sacred in their own home-like George Orwell's 1984.

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It is unclear why Samsung would make such a choice, but the problem is that personal information is now so vulnerable. In many homes, the major television is in a room often used for discussion, plus how vulnerable this third party may be to hacking-an all too real and often ignored danger in the modern age.

The federal government may also be able to keep tabs on people it is wary of, and could likely wire tap a television just as easily as a phone.

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