Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let them use it to train AI

Re:Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let the... by andy99 on Monday July 13, 2026 @06:34PM (#48899826)

I had a ~2008 vintage Samsung phone with a fingerprint sensor that gave your blood oxygen level (SpO2). One day it told me something similar, I had to agree to send them data or I couldn’t use it. So I never used it again, but yeah they have been abusing their costumers a long time.

This is they same company whose tvs take pictures of what you are watching and send them back to Samsung.

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Re:Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let the... by wolvoleo on Monday July 13, 2026 @07:05PM (#48900128)

Every TV does that unfortunately. It's called automatic content recognition but every manufacturer has a different euphemism for it.

It's definitely not just Samsung. As bad as this is. The problem is bigger than just them.

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Re:Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let the... by globalnode on Monday July 13, 2026 @07:58PM (#48900581)

ah so thats where microsoft got the idea for recall from.

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Re:Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let the... by nicce on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:00AM (#48903948)

How is Recall doing these days?

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Re:Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let the... by subscribed on Monday July 13, 2026 @10:38PM (#48901623)

Every TV might do this, not every single one does. Buy TVs which allow you to opt out (at least in one case it was several opt-ins, no opt out per SE).

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Re:Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let the... by wolvoleo on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @06:54PM (#48913968)

I don't really want to ask for permission to be excused from this vile monitoring. I don't want it to be in there at all. But I'm not aware of any brand which doesn't do this.

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Re:Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let the... by jdmarble on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @05:55AM (#48918465)

I’ve got 2 Sceptre “dumb” TVs.

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Re:Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let the... by wolvoleo on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:12PM (#48926459)

Thanks, never heard of that brand but I'll have a look.

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Re:Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let the... by imoverclocked on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:28PM (#48901938)

I have a projector that I just leave off the network. Do TVs require a network connection now? What happens when they don't have one?

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Re:Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let the... by phil21 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:04AM (#48902180)

At the moment usually just a nag popup on power on.

Annoying but not a huge deal. I imagine this will slowly get worse as more people learn to not connect it to WiFi.

Also of course all the smart tv features don’t work, and a lot more folks than I ever imagined actually use the built in controller (usually some form of Android or Roku) to watch Netflix and whatnot. And a lot of folks actually do watch the built in TV “channels” a lot of vendors ship with.

It seems very few people buy an additional device like an Apple TV or Nvidia Shield.

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Re:Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let the... by wolvoleo on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @06:56PM (#48913980)

I heard on another forum that the latest Samsungs just don't progress through the setup wizard without internet. And someone noticed they retain WiFi passwords even after a factory reset.

You can still set up a temporary WiFi and just kill it after but it's getting pretty insane now.

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Re:Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let the... by nubinetwork on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:00AM (#48902152)

At least yours still works, they took out the ability to use the sensor on my s5 some years ago... one random app upgrade and they just decided nope.

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