Tuesday February 10th, 2015 – 1pm

1:00 PM – Samsung TV
Ann Cavoukian, Executive Director, The Privacy and Big Data Institute, Ryerson University
(Former Ontario privacy commissioner)
Watch what you say in your living room. Samsung’s smart TV could be listening. And sharing.
Voice recognition technology in the South Korean company’s Internet connected TVs captures and transmits nearby conversations. The potential for TVs to eavesdrop is revealed in Samsung’s smart TV privacy policy available on its website. “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,” the policy said.
For the voice command feature to work, the TV listens for speech which is translated by third-party software into text and sent back to the TV as a command. Samsung declined to name the software company. The TV also transmits other information including its unique identifier. Samsung said data collection is aimed at improving TV performance but users can disable it.

TECH SPOTLIGHT

1:30- Dematic
IN STUDIO: Pete Devenyi, VP of Global Software Development, Dematic (www.dematic.com)
Dematic is a global leader in supply chain solutions and has chosen Waterloo Region as the location to open a research and development centre focused on software. The Waterloo office opened back in September, and since then they have established a research partnership with UW and are looking to hire both full-time employees and summer co-ops. Dematic is a global leader with a long history in providing supply chain solutions for functions from receiving, storage and buffering through to picking, cross-docking and shipping. Dematic serves 12 focused vertical markets including ecommerce, grocery, merchandising/retail and apparel.

1:45- Local Line
IN STUDIO: Cole Jones, co-founder and CEO of Local Line (www.localline.ca)
Local Line connects chefs with locally sourced food across Southern Ontario. Cole Jones is a philosophy student at Wilfrid Laurier University. He and his co-founder are running their start-up out of Laurier Launchpad at the Communitech Hub. Local Line has received nominations for Small Business of the Year and the Environment and Sustainability Award from the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce, where Cole has also been nominated for Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

 

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