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Tech for All

We at Samsung Electronics want to provide all our customers with a
better digital life that goes beyond simple convenience. Our aim is to
provide inclusive products and services that take into account various
environments and conditions.

Accessibility

A better experience for all

We strive to incorporate technological innovation so that all our customers can enjoy using our products and services.

Creating Better
Pathways for All

Engaging Communities: We see and create with diverse
perspectives for meaningful change

Promoting Equity: We offer equitable ways to experience
the best of our products and services

Lasting Commitment: We invest in building an inclusive
culture
and process to create
experiences that
benefit all

Introducing Our
Accessibility Vision

Play

Assisting the senses
with technology

Our product accessibility features

Open the Vision accessibility popup Vision
Open the Hearing accessibility popup Hearing
Open the Movement accessibility popup Movement
Open the Recognition accessibility popup Recognition

Winning awards for accessibility

- Five-time winner of the CES Innovation Award for the category of accessibility
  (2015~2018, 2021)
- Two-time winner of the CES Best of Innovation Award in TV
  (2016, 2021)
*CES: Consumer
Electronics Show
- Winner of the 2021 Best of Best (Bespoke Jet) and the Best Innovation (Bespoke Jet Bot AI and Bespoke Qooker) awards from the Ergonomics Society of Korea
- Awardee of the Tried and Tested Accreditation from the U.K.’s Royal National Institute of Blind People
  (Oct 2022 - Oct 2024)
- Awardee of the ATECH accreditation from the Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (National Organization of Spanish Blind People) for all 2021 TV models
  (May 2021 - May 2023)
- Selected supplier for the TV distribution project for people with vision and hearing impairments by the Korea Communications Commission
  (2020, 2021, 2022)

Privacy

Valuable personal data
protected with three principles

We have been consistently seeking ways to provide industry-leading privacy protection solutions and enhance customer convenience based on data.
We work hard to act preemptively against risk factors using advanced security technologies that are engineered to provide customers with full control over personal information.

Your privacy. Secured.

Three principles for
protecting customers’
personal data

Transparency: We transparently share the details on our collection and use of personal information.

Security: All our products are designed to provide reliable services and securely protect users’ personal information.

Choice: We enable users to choose the type and extent of personal information to be collected, accessed, and shared.

Protecting what’s
important
with a
secure system
Privacy protection management
Ensuring that all
employees
take the lead in
protecting
personal
information
Privacy protection operation and training
Responding promptly and
transparently in any
situation
Data breach response process

Security

Strong security that puts users at ease

We are working hard to build better security in a variety of ways in the face of increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats. In addition, we will strive to strengthen the security ecosystem together with various stakeholders so that users can enjoy the digital environment more safely.

Four pillars of our cyber security control

Prevention & Hardening Our security system is built to
meet
stringent standards.
Detection We remain vigilant at all times.
Response We respond quickly and accurately.
Prediction We are ready for the future.

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Keeping it safe with
Samsung Knox

We are expanding Samsung Knox from smartphones, tablets and smart TVs to smart home appliances, IoT and 5G devices,
protecting devices step by step, from chipsets to operating systems (OS) and applications.

Samsung Knox’s
security principles Learn more
Improved features in Knox Vault
and mobile security update Learn more

AI Ethics

Smart artificial intelligence that
upholds ethical principles

We aim to create user-centered devices that are safe, helpful and continuously learning through AI technology, whenever and wherever they are used. We are guided by our management philosophy of “contributing to a better global society by designing superior products and services based on our talent and technologies.”

AI Ethics AI ethics principle
Fairness
Transparency
Accountability

Open Innovation

Working together without limits

One company alone cannot change the world. That’s why we are making a difference through our collaborative 3P strategy
to pursue open source projects, secure talented people and operate a stable and systematic development process.

Our 3P strategy fosters
open source
competitiveness

Our open source portal

Project Lead open source projects on core topics Open Source
People Secure talent and collaborate with
diverse external developers Talent and collaboration
Process Operate a stable development system Operating system

Samsung Software
Developer Conference
(SSDC)

The Samsung Open Source Conference, held every year since 2014, has been revamped as the Samsung Software Developer Conference (SSDC).

SSDC gathers software developers from around the world to discuss and collaborate on research or innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, cloud computing, and big data. This forum for software technology exchange is centered on the themes of Learn, Share and Network, and is a place for collaboration among global software developers.

Under the themes of Learn, Share, and Network, Samsung Electronics and software developers have formed strong, lasting relationships over the course of more than 360 sessions attended by over 13,500 professionals as of 2022.

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