The man behind a Twitter account spoofing the chief executive of a newspaper group has been accused of hacking into an email account.

Northcliffe Media, owned by the Daily Mail, has taken legal action to make Twitter reveal the man's identity.
In court documents, the company accused "@UnSteveDorkland" of making staff "fear for their safety".
The account holder told the BBC he denied "all accusations of illegal conduct set out in this document".
Twitter has said it will comply with a court order and reveal the user's details on 1 August.
However, the BBC understands, the account holder will be challenging the decision with the help of a pro-bono lawyer, whose services are provided free of charge "for the public good", in the US. The account holder is also being advised by internet rights groups.
If the court order,
          which has been posted on the Guido Fawkes blog
, is quashed, lengthy court proceedings could result.
Court documents filed at the beginning of the month accused the account holder of being "the creator and/or maintainer of at least three particular accounts", which impersonated - to varying degrees - Steve Auckland, Northcliffe's chief executive.
"At least some of the information made public on Twitter by the defendant was not known publicly," the court papers said.
"And on information and belief, the only way that such information could be obtained was by hacking into an email account at the plaintiff's [Northcliffe] business."
It also accused the account owner of posting information "apparently obtained from surveillance of plaintiff's employees", as well as engaging in other fraudulent and defamatory activity.
The account holder told the BBC he denies all of the accusations outlined in the document.
Northcliffe's Mr Auckland said in a statement: "I can confirm we have taken action to ask Twitter for help in identifying the individual in order to protect our staff from harassment.
"We made no request for, nor had any input in, a decision to stop tweeting. Our first priority is a duty of care to all of our employees."
Northcliffe is yet to make public the specific tweets at the centre of their accusations, although one source at the company told the BBC they were concerned about "homophobic" remarks.
Speaking last week, the account holder denied making offensive comments on the social network.
"People can make their own judgement," he told the BBC.
"I've not taken anything down. It's all in the public domain, I've not touched them at all."


'Miracle' jockey Brian Toomey is to join Dr Richard Newland's stable as assistant trainer in February.

The jump jockey made headlines last year with his return to the saddle, two years after sustaining life-threatening injuries in a fall at Perth.
Toomey, 26, has not ridden a winner since his comeback in July, but will continue riding in the short term alongside his training duties.
Newland won the Grand National at Aintree with Pineau De Re in 2014.
Toomey was given a 3% chance of survival by doctors after a horrific fall from Solway Dandy in 2013. He was reported to have died for six seconds before being resuscitated by paramedics.
A large section of his skull was removed as his brain swelled in an induced coma and he spent 157 days in hospital before being released.
Previously based with Phil Kirby in North Yorkshire, Toomey will join the Newland team in Worcester on 1 February. He has been riding for the David Pipe stable since August,
"I had hoped to get going a bit more but it's been hard," said Toomey. "I'm starting off as assistant trainer there and will remain riding for a bit longer.
"He doesn't have many horses but what he does have are decent."


A senior Conservative official has quit his role overseeing the inquiry into bullying within the party, following an investigation by BBC Newsnight.

Newsnight had revealed key witnesses were reluctant to give evidence while Rob Semple was part of the process.
The inquiry was set up after the suicide of activist Elliott Johnson.
Mr Johnson's parents had called for Mr Semple to step down over his links with Mark Clarke, the man at the centre of many of the bullying allegations.
Last year Mr Semple became chairman of the Tory's volunteer organisation, the National Convention, with the strong support of Mr Clarke.
On Tuesday, the parents of Mr Johnson, the 21-year-old Tory activist whose suicide last September sparked claims of unchecked bullying within the party, told the BBC that Mr Semple should remove himself from any involvement in the inquiry, which is being undertaken by the law firm Clifford Chance.
Earlier this week, Mr Semple had insisted he would not step down and was no longer in touch with Mr Clarke, but, in a statement on Thursday, he announced a U-turn.
He said: "As a father myself, the wishes of Mr and Mrs Johnson are paramount to me and, after seeing their interview on BBC TV, I have decided to recuse myself from the board meeting that will discuss the Clifford Chance report.
"As a Conservative volunteer for 20 years, I want to establish the truth of what happened to Elliott.
"I am convinced the investigation will be fair and thorough and my decision must not be regarded as my accepting any suggestion that I would be less than impartial.
"As chairman of the voluntary party, I will be pressing for the implementation of all the recommendations of the investigation."
Mr Johnson, whose son Elliott had complained of being bullied before he died, said: "This is a victory for common sense.
"Mr Semple has done the right thing, but I still have deep reservations about this whole process.
"The Conservative Party seems to want to control this process which makes people very suspicious about its motives.
"I still don't believe this is a truly independent inquiry."
Fifteen key witnesses to the bullying inquiry had told the BBC they wanted Mr Semple to stand down from any involvement in overseeing the report on the scandal.
A number of them also said they would be reluctant to talk to the Clifford Chance investigation while he was still involved.
The law firm has been commissioned to file a report that will be considered by the Conservative Party board before it is published.
Mark Clarke has always denied any wrongdoing.


A religious minister has never been prosecuted despite admitting abuse linked to a state-run home in Belfast, an inquiry has heard.

The pastor told the RUC in the 1980s that he abused a boy who was being cared for at the former Bawnmore children's home in north Belfast.
The inquiry also heard from counsel Christine Smith that the former care worker told the RUC in the mid-80s about "other sexual incidents involving other people in the various places" where he worked.
The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry was told that the police wanted to pursue a prosecution against the man who cannot be named.
However, prosecutors decided against it because the incidents linked to the Bawnmore boy happened 17 years previously.
The man now lives in another part of the world.
The victim only heard about that decision on Monday, more than 30 years later.
He told the inquiry: "I found out today the truth has been told. Thank God I can now put my head to rest with it. Just happy at that."
Another man, a Catholic, also told the inquiry of how a staff member subjected him to sexual and sectarian abuse at Bawnmore.
Clearly distressed on the witness stand, the man wiped away tears and held his head in his hands as details of the alleged abuse he suffered were outlined to the inquiry.
A friend who accompanied the witness shook his head in disbelief as the extent of the abuse was presented.
When asked what should happen now, the witness replied: "I'm not the only one, there are thousands. Just say sorry."


The Turkish prime minister has told the BBC that Turkey will push again for a no-fly zone over northern Syria to protect civilians fleeing both Islamic State and Syrian government forces.

Ahmet Davutoglu said he would work with the US to establish a "safe area" for people displaced by Syria's conflict.
Mr Davutoglu did not rule out sending Turkish troops in to protect the area.
Turkey is home to more Syrian refugees than any other country - more than 1.8 million according to recent UN figures.
In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Jeremy Bowen, Mr Davutoglu called on the international community to do more to resolve the four-year conflict in Syria and denied that Turkey had helped so-called Islamic State and other extremist groups.
He criticised the five permanent members of the UN Security Council for failing to make a "strong decision" to stop the atrocities in Syria.
Asked whether Turkey was doing enough to prevent the large numbers of migrants reaching Europe though his country, he said it was the responsibility of the international community to stem the flow of migrants by bringing the four-year conflict in Syria to an end.
Despite not ruling out the use of Turkish ground troops, Mr Davutoglu said he preferred to strengthen Syria's moderate opposition.
"If there is enough power of moderate forces in Syria, there will not be any necessity for other countries including Turkey to send any ground troops," he said
Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu argues that the bloodshed in Syria is still out of control because of a simple fact of international life: the five permanent members of the UN Security Council are paralysed when it comes to dealing with Syria's war. They haven't been able to agree a single course of action.
When he was foreign minister, Mr Davutoglu was praised for a policy based on the idea that Turkey should have no problems with its neighbours. But the collapse of much of the Middle East into violence means the Turks face challenges wherever they look.
They are struggling most with fall-out from the Syrian war, in which Turkey is deeply involved. The war has converged with the much older fault line between the Turkish state and Kurdish separatists. It's another example of how the Syrian war is making existing problems much worse.
Turkey v Islamic State v the Kurds: What's going on?
Profile: Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
Turkey's dangerous game
Opponents of the Turkish government have accused it of using the conflict with IS jihadists to target the Kurdish separatist militant group, the PKK.
A ceasefire in Turkey's long-running conflict with the group disintegrated in July, when a suicide bombing blamed on IS killed 32 people in the predominantly Kurdish town of Suruc.
The PKK's military wing killed two Turkish police officers, claiming they had collaborated with IS in the bombing, and in response Turkey began bombing PKK camps in northern Iraq at the same time as launching air strikes on IS militants in Syria.
More than 50 people are thought to have been killed in Turkey in violence linked to the PKK since the current crisis began. The number of PKK militants killed in Turkish air strikes is unknown, but unconfirmed reports in Turkish media said that 190 were killed and more than 300 injured in two major strikes in Turkey and northern Iraq in July.
Turkey launched a fresh round of air strikes in the south-east of the country on Tuesday as the PKK said it was behind Monday's bombing of a police station in Istanbul.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the country would continue to fight the PKK "until not one terrorist is left within our borders" and "until concrete is poured" over the separatists' weapons.
Mr Davutoglu denied that Turkey was at war with the Kurds, arguing instead that the country was retaliating against a terrorist group.
"You can not say if al-Qaeda attacks Britain it is a war between Britain and al-Qaeda. This is a terrorist attack," he said.
"No government, neither European or American democratic government can tolerate a group which is calling people for rebellion against the legitimate government," he added.
The PKK is regarded as a terrorist group by many Western countries, including the US and the UK.
More than 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK began its armed struggle against the Turkish government in 1984. In the 1990s, the organisation dropped its demand for a Kurdish state and instead called for more autonomy for the Kurds.
But Mr Davutoglu has said since the recent resumption of violence that air strikes against the group will continue until it surrenders.
The leader of the PKK, Cemil Bayik, told the BBC on Sunday that he believed Turkey wanted IS to succeed in order to prevent Kurdish gains. Kurdish fighters - among them the PKK - have secured significant victories against IS militants in Syria and Iraq.
Turkey's battle with the PKK is complicating the US-led war on IS, for which the US has relied heavily on Syrian Kurdish fighters affiliated with Turkey's Kurdish rebels.
Turkey has been accused, along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, or supporting jihadist elements in Syria in the early stages of the formation of IS.
Mr Davutoglu rejected the accusation, telling the BBC Turkey had never supported IS or other extremist groups such as al-Nusra.
"No.  Never.  Never.  Never. We supported only those who escaped from Assad's atrocities - chemical weapons, barrel bombs," he said.
"This is an unfair assessment and accusation against Turkey which there is no ground at all. If there is anybody who has a proof for this, they should put this on the table."


Health officials have launched an investigation into standards of care at a residential home for the elderly on the outskirts of Belfast.

New admissions to the home Dunmurry Manor have been suspended.
The Trust said the investigation was ordered following complaints over standards of care and "a number of concerns raised about the home."
In a letter to families of relatives living in Dunmurry Manor, the South Eastern Trust said:
"We were concerned to learn of this and have taken immediate action to investigate and remedy the situation."
"To assure ourselves that care provided is appropriate and to the standard expected we are ensuring that all residents have a care review undertaken with their care manager, family and staff at Dunmurry Manor."
The Trust told the BBC it wanted to hear from anyone whose relatives stayed there over the past 12 months as part of its investigation.
The owners, an Essex based company called Runwood Homes, described Dunmurry Manor as "work in progress" and said "visiting professionals have in recent weeks recognised positive changes there".
Dunmurry Manor is a 76-bed care home for the elderly which includes looking after residents with dementia.
It has emerged there was a previous investigation there last October when admissions were also suspended for a period.
West Belfast woman Julieann McNally complained to the trust about the care her grandmother, Annie McCourt, received as a resident.
Following a fall on 19 June, the resident's family was not informed for nine hours.
"My grandmother was 89 years old, had Alzheimer's and dementia," said Ms McNally.
"It was totally unacceptable. I should have been informed immediately."
Mrs McCourt did not return to the home from hospital and when her family went back to retrieve her clothing a month later they had to sift through a skip marked "dirty laundry."
"We were told to go through that and look for what we could find that belonged to her.
"We weren't given gloves or aprons. We were disgusted to be honest, absolutely disgusted," said Ms McNally.
The owners of the care home acknowledged to the family that the incident over the laundry and the delay in contacting them about the fall were both unacceptable.
In addition to this current investigation by the Trust, Dunmurry Manor is also subject to enforcement action from the body that regulates care homes the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority.
It has been given until next month to comply with certain regulations.
Managing Director of Runwood Homes Logan Logeswaran said:  "Runwood Homes have already met with the South East Health and Social Care Trust and the Trust are carrying out individual resident reviews.
"This is continuing without major disruption to the care home.
"With regard to Dunmurry, a new manager has been appointed recently and is working very closely with the care home staff, Local Authority and other healthcare professionals.
"The manager has also held a relatives meeting and relatives were reassured and updated on the planned action and progress to date.
"The new Home Manager also reviewed all communication between care home staff and relatives/next of kin, maintaining good relationships with all stakeholders to promote excellent care for the residents who live at Dunmurry," he said.
A spokesperson for the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) said: "In October 2016, during an unannounced care inspection at Dunmurry manor house nursing home, RQIA identified a number of concerns regards the care, staffing and governance arrangements at the home.
"As a result of these concerns, RQIA issued three notices of failure to comply with regulations, which set the out the actions required by Dunmurry Manor to achieve compliance with nursing home regulations by early January.
"The safety and wellbeing of every patient at Dunmurry Manor is of paramount importance to RQIA and we will continue to monitor this home through our ongoing regulatory and inspection activities."


Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has said he hopes to sign a peace treaty with left-wing rebels this year, ending the 50-year-old conflict.

Mr Santos told the BBC the Farc rebels had been weakened and that security had improved in Colombia.
But he defended his opposition to a ceasefire, saying both military pressure and peace talks were needed to end the war soon.
The two sides have been in negotiations in Cuba since November 2012.
He said he hoped they were close to peace.
"I am today more optimistic than I was a year ago," he told the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
"They (the rebels) still have the opportunity and the capability of committing terrorist acts (....) but the strength that they had before of taking over small towns or controlling regions, that is no longer present."
Q&A: Colombia peace talks
Rebel attacks have continued. On Friday authorities said two police officers had been killed in southern Colombia.
But Mr Santos reiterated a vow to keep military pressure on the Farc even as his government pursued a comprehensive peace in Cuba.
"It's counterproductive but it's less costly than prolonging the conflict many years more.
And I think the best way to end it is by applying military pressure, in other words the carrot and the stick at the same time."
The talks in the Cuban capital, Havana, are the fourth attempt since the 1980s to reach peace, having failed before amid disagreements, mutual recriminations and flare-ups of violence.
But after more than 14 months, the two sides have only agreed tentatively on two points of a six-point agenda: land reform and political participation of the rebels in a post-war Colombia.
The conflict - the longest-running in Latin America - has killed an estimated 220,000 people since it began in the 1960s, with some three million more internally displaced by the fighting.


Jeremy Thorpe, who has died aged 85 after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease, led the Liberal Party with flair and flamboyance.

His energetic campaigning and powerful oratory attracted many voters and he came close to achieving a share of government for his party.
Under his leadership, the Liberals looked to be regaining their position as a strong force in British politics.
But his political career ended when his life was engulfed in scandal and he faced trial on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder.
John Jeremy Thorpe was born in Surrey on 29 April 1929.
He came from a Conservative family - both his father and grandfather were Tory MPs. One of his ancestors was parliamentary Speaker Thomas Thorpe, who was beheaded by a mob in 1461.
He was sent to a school in Connecticut in 1940 to escape the Blitz.
One historian has suggested that the liberal regime at his American school played a large part in formulating his political thinking and was, no doubt, a huge contrast to Eton where he went from 1943.
He read law at Trinity College, Oxford where he cut a dash, both by wearing Edwardian-style clothes and as a noted debater. He became chairman of the Liberal Club and then the Oxford Union.
While training as a barrister he set out to find a parliamentary seat and was selected for Conservative-held North Devon, firmly in the west country Liberal heartland.
His energetic campaigning, and inspiring performances as an orator saw him halve the Conservative majority in the 1955 general election.
Just four years later, he won the seat by the narrowest of margins, a rare Liberal triumph in what had been a poor election showing for the party elsewhere in the country.
He entered the 1960s as a pioneering campaigner for human rights, attacking South Africa's policy of apartheid and the post-colonial excesses in South East Asia.
He also achieved a reputation as something of a wit exemplified by his observation on Harold Macmillan's dismissal of a third of the Conservative cabinet in 1962.
"Greater love hath no man than this," quipped Thorpe, "that he lay down his friends for his life".
He became a favourite at Liberal party conferences and served as the party's treasurer before being elected leader in 1967 promising to turn the Liberals into a radical pioneering force.
However Edward Heath's win in the 1970 general election dashed hopes of a Liberal revival and shortly after it Thorpe's young wife Caroline was killed in a car crash.
Three years later he married Marion Stein, a noted concert pianist and the divorced wife of the Queen's first cousin, the Earl of Harewood.
Helped by Thorpe's elegant appearance and charismatic style, the Liberals won 14 seats in the February 1974 election.
With a hung parliament, Conservative leader, Edward Heath, approached Thorpe to discuss a possible coalition.
Thorpe was attracted by the offer of a seat in Cabinet, but met opposition from his own MPs.
In the event, Harold Wilson's clear victory in the October 1974 election ended any hopes that the Liberals might have a share of power.
Within two years, stories were circulating about Thorpe's relationship with a former male model, Norman Scott.
It was made worse because the relationship was alleged to have started in 1961, when male homosexual acts were illegal.
The story broke when Scott was appearing at a court in Barnstaple on a minor social security charge.
During the hearing, Scott shouted out, "I am being hounded because of my sexual relationship with Jeremy Thorpe."  He gave a statement to the police but no action was taken.
Thorpe issued an immediate denial but  when an affectionate letter between them appeared in the press, Thorpe resigned as leader.
But worse was to come. Eighteen months later, a man called Andrew Newton was released from prison.
He had been jailed on charges arising from an incident on Exmoor in which Norman Scott's dog, Rinka, was shot.
He claimed that he had been paid by a leading Liberal supporter to kill Scott because of his blackmail threats but said he had lost his nerve and shot the dog instead.
Nine more months of police investigation led to Thorpe and three associates being charged with conspiring to murder Scott.
The 1979 trial was postponed for eight days at Thorpe's request so that he could contest his North Devon seat in the May general election. He was heavily defeated.
The trial attracted reporters from all over the world. It took 20 days for the prosecution to present its case to the jury while defence evidence occupied just a single day.
On the advice of his barrister, George Carman QC, Thorpe and his co-defendants elected not to go into the witness box.
Eventually, after six weeks, the charges were dismissed. For two years Jeremy Thorpe stayed out of the public eye.
But the affair resurfaced again when one of his co-defendants, David Holmes, a former deputy treasurer of the Liberal Party, wrote a series of articles for the News of the World newspaper.
In the first of them he claimed that Thorpe did incite him to murder Norman Scott. Thorpe's solicitor immediately issued a rebuttal and the director of public prosecutions said there was no question of another trial.
But Thorpe's public life was finished.
Shortly after his acquittal he was offered the post of director general of the British section of Amnesty International.
He had previously been a valuable source of information to the organisation, particularly on the subject of human rights abuses in Ghana.
But there was huge opposition from Amnesty's members and the appointment was never made.
His later years saw the onset of Parkinson's Disease. But he kept in close touch with the Westminster he loved, despite painful memories.
He became the President of the North Devon Liberal Association, later Liberal Democrat Association, and received a standing ovation when he appeared at the 1997 Liberal Democrat conference.
In an interview in 2009 the ailing former politician reflected on the events that had brought him down
"If it happened now," he said, " I think the public would be kinder."


Rescue operations are continuing two days after a gas leak blast demolished two buildings in East Harlem, New York City, killing eight people.

With one person still unaccounted for, authorities are searching the rubble for survivors at the scene.
Telescopic cameras and sound devices have been deployed to search small spaces in the wreckage.
Less than 50% of debris has been removed from the site after Wednesday's incident, which injured more than 60.
"We have to think of survivors and work in that way, with hope," Fire Department of New York Chief Edward Kilduff told US media of the ongoing operation.
Bulldozers are removing debris from the scene in the Park Avenue and 116th Street area, with authorities aiming to reach the first floor by Saturday and then on to the basement to search for victims.
On Friday, city officials and utility company Con Edison continued to search for the source of a gas leak believed to have caused the explosion.
In question is whether the city's aging gas and water mains, dating as far back as the 1800s, played a role.
New York City still uses an estimated 3,000 miles (4,800 km) of old cast-iron pipe to deliver gas.
The old infrastructure poses a "fundamental challenge", according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Local residents were said to have complained recently about "unbearable" gas smells in the area, raising questions about whether such complaints were ignored.
Con Edison said a resident in a nearby building reported smelling gas shortly before the incident, but a team of engineers did not arrive until it was too late.
Edward Foppiano, a Con Ed spokesman, said there was only one gas odour complaint on record with the utility from either address. It was from last May and involved a small leak, according to the utility.


Andy Murray faces his first serious test at Wimbledon 2016 when he meets unpredictable Australian Nick Kyrgios in the last 16 on Monday.

The pair will meet on Centre Court at around 16:30 BST, with the match shown live on BBC One.
Following Novak Djokovic's shock exit, British number one Murray is the favourite to win his second SW19 title, while Kyrgios, 21, is looking to reach only his third Grand Slam quarter-final.
Former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash and ex-British number one John Lloyd analyse where this mouth-watering tie will be won and lost.
Kyrgios' biggest weapon is no secret - it is his thumping serve.
The Australian has crashed down 79 aces so far in this year's tournament, a tally only bettered by American John Isner.
His serve speeds have regularly clocked over 130mph, while his first-serve percentage of 72% is only topped by five other men.
But, against Murray, he is facing one of the best returners in the game.
"If Nick hits a lot of aces then there is very little you can do about it," said BBC Radio 5 live analyst Cash.
"But he is also very big from the back of the court, his forehand is extremely strong and you need those sort of shots to get through Murray.
"He also has a great variety, that's what is unsettling to a lot of players. If he can play consistently well and keep up his focus he gives any player a real threat.
"We know Kyrgios has plenty of power, but Murray's defence is as good as anybody in the game.
"You do have to defend well against a guy like Kyrgios and Murray is moving really well. But he is also attacking, you can't just be defending all the time."
Kyrgios reckoned ahead of the tournament he was ready to "go deep" into the latter stages, reiterating after beating Feliciano Lopez - and following Novak Djokovic's exit - his belief he could become the first Australian man to win a Grand Slam since Lleyton Hewitt in 2002.
However, he has shown the two wildly different sides to his game over the past week.
On the resumption of his match against Lopez on Sunday, Kyrgios produced what Lloyd said the 21-year-old's camp would describe as "a 10 out of a 10 performance".
"If he plays like that, with concentration and focus, then Andy Murray is in for a tough match," added the 1977 Australian Open finalist.
"He showed controlled aggression, had excellent shot selection and played the percentages when he needed to."
But he showed his petulant side against second-round opponent Dustin Brown, losing focus in the third set as he continually vented his frustrations at his box, the umpire and the crowd.
As Kyrgios lost focus in the third set, his serve took a beating by Brown. He won only 53% of first-serve points and 45% of second-serve points.
"Kyrgios' big weakness is his mental capacity," said Cash. "His focus can come and go, he can lose his temper. He blows hot and cold.
"Often he goes into a phase where he is upset and can start spraying balls. Murray will look to exploit that simply by playing well and putting him into awkward positions."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Murray has won all four of their previous top-level meetings, including a straight-sets win at the 2015 Australian Open and four-set thriller at the US Open later that same year.
Kyrgios does have experience of beating Murray, though, albeit in a Hopman Cup competition not officially recognised as an ATP rankings event.
This will be their first meeting on grass, a surface on which Kyrgios himself believes gives him the best opportunity of beating the Scot.
"In theory it would seem that grass would be his best chance of beating Murray," said Cash.
"With a serve like Nick's it is harder to return on the grass and so he will get a few extra points with that serve. The slower the court the more rallies he has to hit."
Murray has breezed through his opening three matches, spending little over five hours on court after seeing off Liam Broady, Yen-Hsun Lu and John Millman without dropping a set.
Kyrgios, however, has spent over two hours more on court than the Scot, having needed four sets to beat Radek Stepanek and Feliciano Lopez, as well as five sets to see off Dustin Brown.
"Murray will be trying to pin him to the baseline and wear him down over a few hours," said Cash. "That's what Andy does to players. He gets every ball back.
"Nick is still not as physically fit as Andy and he will suffer. That means he has to go for more shots. If they come off he can be unbeatable.
"If he has to work hard and struggle over five sets then he is likely to fade away against Andy. Andy is one of the fittest there is."
Kyrgios has only played on Centre Court once before, when he caused a massive upset by beating Rafael Nadal.
Kyrgios, then a 19-year-old wildcard ranked 144th, became the first man outside the top 100 to beat a world number one at a Grand Slam since 1992.
"He is a showman who loves playing in the type of atmosphere that there will be on Centre Court," said Lloyd.
"He will embrace that he is playing the second best player in the world, on Centre Court and with a place in the quarter-finals at stake."
Murray is the overwhelming favourite to earn a fifth successive win against Kyrgios and reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the ninth successive year.
And both Lloyd and Cash cannot see the Briton being at the receiving end of a shock.
"Andy will win," said Lloyd. "He might drop a set, possibly two, but he will come through."
Cash added: "I think Nick will definitely get a set, but it will be a Murray victory."
Media playback is not supported on this device


A parade in Swansea by 3rd Battalion the Royal Welsh to mark St David's Day has gone ahead despite the absence of the Queen, who had been due to hand out ceremonial leeks to the soldiers.

Buckingham Palace announced on Friday evening that the Queen would not attend because she had gastroenteritis.
Lord Lieutenant of West Glamorgan Byron Lewis took over the ceremonial role.
The battalion's commanding officer said it would have been a first to have been presented leeks by the Queen.
The cancellation by the Queen led to more sparse crowds watching the ceremony than had been anticipated.
Speaking beforehand, commanding officer Rob Manuel said it had been "a bit of a surprise" when the announcement that the Queen would not be attending was made.
However, he told BBC News: "We switched to plan B, and our thoughts and wishes are with her and we hope that she makes a speedy recovery.
"The lord lieutenant has stepped into the breach. Today is going to run as per normal.
"It would have certainly been a first for the queen to present leeks to 3rd Battalion, being a reserve battalion, especially for the chaps who have just come back from Afghanistan just before Christmas.
"To have their leeks presented by the commander-in-chief is a really special day and really shows that the nation and the head of state are behind them."
David Phillips, leader of Swansea Council, said: "We fully understand why the Queen was unable to attend the celebrations and our only thoughts are to wish her a speedy recovery.
"We look forward to welcoming the Queen to Swansea in the future."
The parade came a day after 600 soldiers from the Welsh Guards and 200 members of the regimental association received leeks at their barracks in Hounslow, Middlesex, to celebrate St David's Day.
The event dates back to 1916 when guardsmen fighting in WWI received leeks on the battlefields at the Somme.
The Queen spent Saturday recovering at Windsor Castle.
Her illness could also affect a planned two-day trip with the Duke of Edinburgh to Rome next weekend. She has been invited by Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano.
A palace spokesman said the visit was still due to take place but a decision will be made later.
On Friday - St David's Day - Prince Charles and and the Duchess of Cornwall visited Cardiff, attending a special service to mark Wales' national day and visiting the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.


Providing long-term rough-sleepers with a place of their own could save the Liverpool City Region (LCR) up to £4m a year, a study has found.

The feasibility report, commissioned by the charity Crisis, looked at piloting the Housing First support system aimed at reducing homelessness.
Finding people a home "improves well-being" and is more cost-effective than hostel placements, it said.
LCR Mayor Steve Rotheram said it could "change how we tackle homelessness".
The study, funded by the UK government and the charity Housing First, said the "current system is failing some of the most vulnerable homeless people, who often struggle with the rules and conditions, stress, and lack of security in hostels".
It said they needed "higher levels of support as a result of poor mental health, substance misuse, physical or learning disabilities or a history of offending".
Adopting the Housing First scheme could save LCR between £1.18m and £4.02m annually by 2023/24, the report claims.
It estimated LCR - which includes Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral and the Cheshire borough of Halton - would have to spend about £12,600 per user annually if implemented.
The study by the charity Crisis and others found that in April this year more than 500 people in the Liverpool city region had been using homeless services for a year.
Of these, 15-20 were considered long-term rough sleepers in Liverpool itself, the council said.
Jon Sparkes, chief executive of Crisis, said: "For the most vulnerable rough sleepers, the best approach is to support people into a stable home of their own as soon as possible and shape personalised support around them."
Along with LCR mayor Steve Rotheram, he called on the UK government to consider the "radical new approach", which has been used in Scotland, Denmark, Finland, France, Canada and the US.
Mr Rotheram said: "I recognise the enormously valuable work being done by agencies... but as this report makes clear, there are limitations to the current system, which mean that all too often the most vulnerable rough sleepers are falling through the cracks."
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said the study provided "valuable evidence for consideration by our new Homelessness Reduction Task Force".


Coventry City have made two deadline day loan signings, bringing in two defenders from Premier League clubs.

Southampton's Jack Stephens, 22, and Bournemouth's Baily Cargill, 20, have signed until the end of the season.
Coventry have also extended 34-year-old ex-Republic of Ireland international winger Stephen Hunt's short-term deal until the end of the season.
And they will still have use of teenage midfielder James Maddison, on loan, after selling him to Norwich City.
"I've made no secret of my desire to bolster our defensive options," said City boss Tony Mowbray, whose Sky Blues side have slipped to fifth in League One after picking up just one point out of a possible 12 from their last four games.
Stephens will undertake his second loan of the season after spending the first half of the campaign on loan at City boss Mowbray's old club, Championship side Middlesbrough.
The former England Under-21 international made his league debut as a 16-year-old with home-town club Plymouth Argyle before signing for Southampton for £150,000 in April 2011.
He spent last season on loan at Swindon Town, helping them to reach the League One play-offs, playing alongside City skipper Sam Ricketts.
Left-sided Cargill began his youth career at Leicester City, then Southampton before signing his first professional contract with Bournemouth in 2012.
All his 10 appearances for the Cherries have come in cup games, but he did make his Football League debut with Torquay United two seasons ago, following a three-month loan in the non-league top flight with Welling United.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A 66-year-old man has died following a two-vehicle crash on the Warrenpoint Road in Newry, County Down.

The motorcycle he was steering was involved in a collision with a Land Rover Discovery towing a caravan.
Police said the incident happened shortly before 12:30 BST on Sunday.
The Warrenpoint Road remains closed from the junction of William Street and Kilmorey Street to the Greenbank roundabout.
Police have appealed for information about the crash.
Elsewhere, the Raceview Road in Ballymena, County Antrim, has been closed in both directions at the junction of the M2, following a two-vehicle crash on Sunday evening.


The challenge facing Sam Burgess is a daunting one.

Media playback is not supported on this device
As the 25-year-old rugby league star  in the XV-man code with Bath, he doesn't just have to adapt to a different sport with its own distinct and complex set of rules, he also has to live up to one of the biggest reputations rugby has ever seen.
The pressure to meet expectations, to gain selection for England and then help them lift 2015's World Cup will be intense.
But if Burgess feels the need for encouragement as he crosses rugby's great divide, he need only look towards one man for inspiration.
Jason Robinson remains rugby's ultimate dual-coder. And 11 years after his spell-binding pace and trademark sidestep helped England lift the Webb Ellis trophy, he believes Burgess can follow in his footsteps.
"There's no doubt in my mind that he'll play a massive part for England," Robinson tells me as we meet over breakfast a few miles from Wigan, the town where he made his name in rugby league.
"People ask, 'is he capable of doing it in such a short space of time?'.
"They're looking at 11 months until the Rugby World Cup. Can he play for England?
"My journey proves that it can be done. I came over in November and, by February, I was playing for England. In June I was on the Lions tour! I have no doubt Sam Burgess will be playing for England, it's just a case of when. It's going to be exciting.
"We've got Manu Tuilagi, who's probably England's first choice in the centre. Luther Burrell is a strong player, great going forward, but I think Sam has got something in him that even those two players don't have."
Robinson is one of rugby's most iconic figures. After nine years in league at Wigan Warriors, he switched to union in 2000, going on to win 51 England caps and scoring his country's only try in the 2003 World Cup final.
But even he is in awe of what Burgess has achieved in Australia, where the ex-Bradford Bulls star led the South Sydney Rabbitohs to become NRL champions for the first time in 43 years. That is despite Burgess playing 79 minutes of the Grand Final with a fractured eye socket and cheekbone.
"The NRL has always been the proving ground," says Robinson, who came close to a move to Australia himself before a proposed deal fell through.
"Super League is great, but if you want to test yourself, you really go to the NRL. He's done it. Looking at his last-ever game, I think he's had four plates in his cheekbone.
"That injury was in the first minute, but he goes on the play the game. He gets man of the match and he finishes his stint at South Sydney on such a high.
"I've not seen many players, if any, that pound for pound can physically hit people like he does.
"He's a very intimidating figure. He's one of the best in the world.
"It's a shame that Bath play so far away from where I live [in Huddersfield] because I'd be down there every week just looking for that collision."
But having conquered Australian rugby league, can Burgess now adapt to rugby union's Premiership? Robinson has faith.
He adds: "People have talked about him at back row, I've heard somebody say on the wing, but he's got to go straight into the centre.
"What Bath and hopefully England need to do is keep it simple. When I made the switch from league to union, the reason why I believe I did so well is I kept it simple. I did what came naturally to me and, as a result, I stood out from most others. That's the same with Sam.
"The first time I took the ball into a ruck, I got kicked to bits. That made me present the ball back a lot better. I think Sam will be a quick learner. He's going to come in, not as this superstar from the NRL but as a Yorkshire lad who loves rugby. He's got a new challenge.
"It's probably easier going from union to league because the game's a lot simpler. Rugby league is a very fast, physical game but it's quite simple. You contact, you get back, whereas with rugby union it's very complex. That's what I didn't fully appreciate when I made the switch, every breakdown, every time you take the ball.
"As a full-back in rugby union, there are so many options and if I do get caught and I'm isolated, then I'm in trouble. In rugby league, I could run anywhere, take the tackle and my support would get there within a few seconds.  It's going to be difficult, you can over-complicate.
Media playback is not supported on this device
"He'll want to do well for Bath. They've not taken a gamble, they've played a really good card in getting him over. He'll see, like I did, that on the horizon there's a chance to play for England and to be a dual-code international. It's something he probably never dreamed of when he was younger, but he's got the opportunity and he'll know in getting his head down, doing a lot of hard work, it'll come.
"It's come at a very good time. He's not 30, 31, 32. He's 25. He's made a conscious decision to come and target at this time. One of the goals for him is playing in a World Cup.
"When I made the switch, it wasn't because I fell out of love with rugby league, it's because I'd achieved so much at such a young age. That next step was at international level. Maybe this is the same with Sam.
Nimble and blessed with some of the quickest feet in the sport, Robinson was one of the smaller men of international rugby at 5ft 7in. Burgess is a comparative giant at 18 stone and 6ft 5in.
Robinson spent time on loan with Bath in 1996, before switching codes permanently with Sale in 2000.
And while they may be very different physical specimens, Robinson sees a lot of himself in Burgess - and not just because both have chosen The Rec as their entry point into union.
Both men have overcome adversity. Abandoned by his father before he was born, Robinson grew up on the tough Leeds estate of Harehills. His mother - a cleaner - was beaten by his stepfather and Robinson fell into alcoholism before rugby provided an outlet and he faced up to his demons, becoming a born-again Christian.
Unlike Robinson, Bradfordian Burgess did grow up knowing his father Mark - a former semi-pro rugby league player. But agonisingly, he then lost him to motor neurone disease when Sam was still a teenager.
Sam's subsequent - and ultimately triumphant - journey to Russell Crowe's Rabbitohs four years ago, along with his three rugby league-playing brothers and mother Julie, already reads like a Hollywood script. And now a new chapter in a remarkable sporting narrative is about to begin.
"It's amazing what he's achieved," says Robinson.
"Having to go through all the challenges as a young lad, having to deal with the death of his father. It's almost like he's become the father of his family looking after his younger brothers. It's a testament to him and I'm convinced that he'll do really well. He's got the talent and he's got the attitude as a world-class player."
Burgess leaves rugby league on a high, having just become the first Englishman ever to be crowned International Rugby League Player of the Year.
Now he hopes to set the world of union alight and help his country become world champions, just like another Yorkshireman did more than a decade ago.


Spain's fourth-largest bank, Bankia, has asked the government for a bailout worth 19bns euros ($24bn; £15bn).

Bankia also restated its results
 - now saying it made a 2.98bn-euro loss for 2011 rather than the 309m euros in profit it announced in February.
Earlier on Friday, trading in Bankia shares was suspended on the Madrid stock exchange while its management put together a restructuring plan.
Bankia has already been bailed out because of its bad property loans.
After a meeting of the board on Friday, Bankia's parent Banco Financiero y de Ahorro (BFA) asked Spain's bank bailout fund, FROB, to inject the 19bn euros.
Bankia will then issue 12bn euros in capital that will be underwritten by BFA.
The bank said
 that the "recapitalisation measures strengthen the group's solvency, liquidity and stability".
Rating agency Standard and Poor's has also lowered the credit rating of Bankia and four other Spanish banks.
Two weeks ago, Bankia had a 4.47bn-euro loan by the Spanish bailout fund converted into a 45% stake in the bank.
Bankia had to reassure its savers last week that their money was safe after a Spanish newspaper reported a run on the bank.
Bankia was created in 2010 from the merger of seven struggling regional savings banks. It holds 32bn euros in distressed property assets.
Its shares fell 7.4% on Thursday to close at 1.57 euros, which is 58% down from their listing price in July 2011.
There have been four attempts by Spanish governments to shore up the banking system since the global banking crisis of 2008.
As part of the latest plan, lenders are having to make 30bn euros of extra provisions to cover potential losses on property loans, which comes on top of 54bn euros they were ordered to set aside in February.
The health of Spain's banking system is key to whether the country eventually needs to seek a bailout itself from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund.
Spain's credit rating was downgraded by S&P last month on the basis that it would probably have to take on more debt to support its banks.
Also on Friday, there were appeals for help from another Spanish institution - its wealthiest autonomous region, Catalonia.
"We need to make payments at the end of the month," said Catalan president Artur Mas. "Your economy can't recover if you can't pay your bills."
Catalonia represents one-fifth of the Spanish economy.
It has to take out 13bn euros of loans this year to refinance maturing debt, not to mention funding whatever deficit it has for the current year.
The regions have been having trouble borrowing money commercially, so the central government has given them a special credit facility from the Official Credit Institute (ICO).
Those credit lines run out in June and the government has said it will come up with a new mechanism to provide credit for the regions, but it is unclear what form the help should take.


A selection of your pictures of Scotland from 19 to 26 August. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk or our Instagram at #bbcscotlandpics.


Tottenham have continued their summer spending with the signing of Steaua Bucharest centre-back Vlad Chiriches.

The Romania international, 23, has finalised a deal reported to be worth £8.5m.
In a statement, Spurs said they were "delighted" with the deal for the player, capped 19 times by his country.
Roma forward Erik Lamela, 21, is also close to completing his £25.7m move to White Hart Lane, which could trigger Gareth Bale's move to Real Madrid.
Bale failed to report for training for a third consecutive day on Thursday as talks between Spurs and Real continue.
The Spanish side's vice-president Fernando Fernandez Tapias said: "There are problems but in the end I think it will happen."
According to Spanish news agency Efe, he said: "We're going to wait because [Tottenham] are dragging their feet.
"There is no doubting Bale's class, but Real Madrid without Bale is a great Madrid, we have a team of warriors."
Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas said he may fine the Welsh international after he failed to show up on Wednesday.
Bale, 24, was due back at the club on Tuesday after a break in Marbella.
The deals for Chiriches and Lamela are irrespective of the Bale transfer, and should a deal for Argentina forward Lamela materialise, Tottenham's spending this summer will be more than £90m.
Chiriches, who made 62 appearances for Steaua, strengthens Spurs' defensive options after Steven Caulker was sold to Cardiff City and William Gallas was released.
He made his international debut in August 2011 and helped his club end their seven-year wait for the Romanian league championship last season.


A bus driver who knocked down and killed a teenage girl and seriously injured her boyfriend has been jailed for 10 months.

Paul Brown, ran down Summer Seymour, 15, and Jake Ford, 17, as they crossed Haymarket in Sheffield, in 2015.
Sheffield Crown Court heard he "should and would have seen the children had he been concentrating on his driving".
Brown, 51, of Fir Vale, Sheffield, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving.
More stories from across Yorkshire
Summer's mother Corrina Seymour told the court that since her daughter's death "there is no joy anymore".
She said: "We go through the motions of life but we are not really living. Every day is another day closer to being with Summer again."
The court heard Summer and Jake had been part way across the road when they were hit by Brown's single-decker bus.
Summer died at the scene while Jake suffered "potentially life changing and extremely serious injuries", spending 11 days in intensive care after the crash.
The bus was travelling at about 10mph when it struck the teenagers.
Prosecutor Gordon Stables said Brown would have had seen the couple about six seconds before hitting them.
He said: "It is the Crown's case that the defendant should and would have seen the children had he been concentrating properly on his driving, and could have stopped the bus prior to the point of impact and or steered away.
"Although dressed in dark clothing, the area was well lit and the children were there to be seen."
Jailing Brown, Judge Paul Watson QC said: "Both young people would have been in your sight and capable of being seen for several seconds .
"It is clear to me that you took little or no till it was far, far too late.
"The only conclusion to which I can come, given you are an otherwise conscientious and careful driver is that you were distracted by something rather than concentrating on your driving."
Through his barrister David McGonigal, Brown said he was "deeply sorry".
"Speaking after the sentencing Jake said the incident had had a "huge impact on mine and my family's lives and left Summer's family and friends devastated".
"Ultimately, today's sentence will not undo that," he said.
"I just hope drivers take more responsibility for their actions in future."


Manager Russell Slade hopes a first start for loan striker Kenneth Zohore could help revive Cardiff City's slim Championship play-off hopes.

The Danish under-21 international has made nine substitute outings since joining on loan from Kortrijk in Belgium and could start against Bolton.
Zohore, 22, scored his first goal in Tuesday's 2-1 defeat at Brentford.
"It's the sort of impact we have been waiting for. It's been his best impact," said Slade.
"He's put himself in one or two useful positions for us and not been able to finish.
"But we are all pleased for him he has managed to get that goal Tuesday night and a bit of confidence going forward.
"I have got to be thinking about starting him because we have one or two fitness tests."
Zohore is one of the youngest players ever to play in the Champions League after making his European debut for Copenhagen against Barcelona at the Nou Camp as a 16-year-old.
Cardiff will definitely be without midfielder Aaron Gunnarsson (ankle) and full-backs Fabio (groin) and Declan John (virus), while centre-back Bruno Ecuele Manga is recovering from malaria.
When they host Bolton on Saturday, Cardiff will be aiming to keep pressure on sixth-placed Sheffield Wednesday, who are six points ahead of Cardiff with three games to go.
Slade, who reiterated his own contract negotiations are on hold until the summer, does not believe reaching play-offs is key to whether he continues next season.
Wednesday take on fellow play-off contenders Derby County in Saturday's early kick-off, so the result will be known by the time Cardiff face Bolton.
"While that remains a possibility, we have to search for the points ourselves. It is important we control the situation we are in," he added.
"It's all irrelevant unless we do what we have to do against Bolton. That is why the focus has to be on our game to ensure we get back to winning ways.
"We want to go to Sheffield Wednesday (on April 30) with them under pressure."


A new Twenty20 tournament planned by the England and Wales Cricket Board "will be a roaring success", says former England captain Michael Vaughan.

Media playback is not supported on this device
The competition is set to start in 2020 and will involve eight new city-based teams playing 36 games in 38 days.
"Cricket needs that moment in this country that changes the way we talk and think about it," said Vaughan.
He also said that he believes the ECB's aim for "significant" free-to-air coverage is key to the proposal.
ECB chief executive Tom Harrison called free-to-air ambitions an "aspiration which reaches at the heart of our proposition going forward".
He hopes the new competition will rival the Indian Premier League and Big Bash in Australia as the leading T20 tournaments in the world.
The Big Bash draws average crowds of more than 28,000 whereas Vaughan labelled the attendance of the current T20 Blast competition in the English county game as "nothing better than division three football".
"Everyone can see every ball of the Big Bash," said Vaughan, who was speaking on his BBC Radio 5 live show with ex-England spinner Phil Tufnell. "Cricket is there for everyone to see. I love the thought and talk of terrestrial partners and the game seen.
"But I don't think that is the be-all and end-all. I think it is important, but I think cricket has to do so much more.
"The only thing in terms of a county perspective is this new tournament will be a massive juggernaut, get loads of marketing and the county game may say: 'Why didn't we get that support?'
"Would the Blast have had more success if there was a terrestrial partner in play or had that kind of support? I guess the answer is yes."
He added: "I think the white ball game, in particular, and T20 is exactly the brand of cricket required to expand the game."
Current England captain Joe Root believes the plans for the new competition are a "good idea" and that "it is very important the public are given an opportunity to see cricket at a national level, on free-to-air TV".
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live, the Yorkshireman added: "It will be interesting to see how things pan out and what decisions are made."
Squads of the eight T20 teams will be made up of 15 players and include three overseas players.
That will leave 96 players being selected from the 18 counties, which averages out at just over five apiece.
"If you picked 96 players out of county cricket now, the standard is remarkable," said Vaughan.
"Pick five-and-a-half players from each county and you add in the world-class overseas stars and you are going to get some terrific teams."
Vaughan played down concerns over fans not wanting to support certain city-based teams because of their county allegiance.
"Supporters will say I won't support Leeds or Manchester but I don't think they're going to be called the towns," said Vaughan who also addressed worries about the weather and the tournament being played when families travel abroad during the lengthy school summer holidays.
"The weather is nonsense because we might as well say 'we're not going to play because it might rain so let's cancel all cricket'," he said.
"In terms of holidays, the programme is six weeks long and I don't know anybody who goes away for six weeks. They might go for two weeks and they don't all go at the same time.  Again, that is nonsense."
Following a period of consultation, the ECB highlighted a "focus on recruiting the next generation of fans, in particular promoting attendance to a diverse, young, family audience".
"Where the Big Bash has had huge success is they made sure the fan experience is key," said Vaughan. "The cricket was almost secondary.
"It's around 50/50 of men and women in the crowd which is remarkable.
"They go back the week after because all the kids and all the families had a terrific night out."
On Monday, the ECB presented a detailed overview of its proposals for a new Twenty20 competition to its 41 members. These included:
A referendum is expected to be dispatched on Tuesday inviting stakeholders to sanction a tournament including eight teams, rather than the 18 counties who traditionally contest the main competitions domestically.
The ECB is made up of 41 stakeholders, which includes the 18 first-class counties, the MCC, the Minor Counties Cricket Association and the recreational boards, and a minimum of 31 will need to vote in favour for the plans to progress.
"I will ask the ECB board to trigger a change in our Articles of Association to enable the introduction of the proposed new T20 competition," said ECB chairman Colin Graves.
"We face a ground-breaking opportunity in the weeks and months ahead - and if our members embrace it, the ECB will work with everyone in the game to ensure this huge potential and the investment that will come with this delivers an even stronger future for the game."


Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set.

The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Samsung Smart TV using its voice activation feature.
When the feature is active, such TV sets "listen" to what is said and may share what they hear with Samsung or third parties, it said.
Privacy campaigners said the technology smacked of the telescreens, in George Orwell's 1984, which spied on citizens.
The warning came to light via a story in online news magazine the Daily Beast which published an excerpt of a section of Samsung's privacy policy for its net-connected Smart TV sets. These record what is said when a button on a remote control is pressed.
The policy explains that the TV set will be listening to people in the same room to try to spot when commands or queries are issued via the remote. It goes on to say: "If your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party."
Corynne McSherry, an intellectual property lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) which campaigns on digital rights issues, told the Daily Beast that the third party was probably the company providing speech-to-text conversion for Samsung.
She added: "If I were the customer, I might like to know who that third party was, and I'd definitely like to know whether my words were being transmitted in a secure form."
Soon after, an activist for the EFF circulated the policy statement on Twitter comparing it to George Orwell's description of the telescreens in his novel 1984 that listen to what people say in their homes.
In response to the widespread sharing of its policy statement, Samsung has issued a statement to clarify how voice activation works. It emphasised that the voice recognition feature is activated using the TV's remote control.
It said the privacy policy was an attempt to be transparent with owners in order to help them make informed choices about whether to use some features on its Smart TV sets, adding that it took consumer privacy "very seriously".
Samsung said: "If a consumer consents and uses the voice recognition feature, voice data is provided to a third party during a requested voice command search. At that time, the voice data is sent to a server, which searches for the requested content then returns the desired content to the TV."
It added that it did not retain voice data or sell the audio being captured. Smart-TV owners would always know if voice activation was turned on because a microphone icon would be visible on the screen, it said.
The third party handling the translation from speech to text is a firm called Nuance, which specialises in voice recognition, Samsung has confirmed to the BBC.
Samsung is not the first maker of a smart, net-connected TV to run into problems with the data the set collects. In late 2013, a UK IT consultant found his LG TV was gathering information about his viewing habits.
Publicity about the issue led LG to create a software update which ensured data collection was turned off for those who did not want to share information.


About 980 million litres of contaminated water have leaked into Florida's main underground source of drinking water, state officials say.

The leak occurred after a huge sinkhole opened up under a phosphate fertiliser plant near Tampa, damaging the stack where waste water was stored.
The water contained phosphogypsum, a slightly radioactive by-product from the production of fertiliser.
The phosphate company Mosaic said the leak posed no risk to the public.
It added the contaminated water had not reached private supplies and the firm was recovering it using pumps.
"Groundwater moves very slowly," senior Mosaic official David Jellerson was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
However, Jacki Lopez, Florida director of the Center for Biological Diversity, told Reuters news agency:  "It's hard to trust them when they say 'Don't worry,' when they've been keeping it secret for three weeks."
A spokeswoman for Florida's Department of Environmental Protection said the company was updating state and federal agencies on the situation.
Dee Ann Miller said her agency was doing frequent site visits to safeguard public health.
"While monitoring to date indicates that the process water is being successfully contained, groundwater monitoring will continue to ensure there are no offsite or long-term effects," she said in an email to Associated Press.
The sinkhole - about 45ft (14m) in diameter - at Mosaic's New Wales facility in the town of Mulberry was discovered by a company worker on 27 August.
The sinkhole later caused the waste pond to drain, and the contaminated water has now seeped into the aquifer.
Aquifers are massive underground systems of porous rocks that hold water.


Ireland forward Iain Henderson is among four Ulster players facing a spell on the sidelines after a bruising victory over Edinburgh on Friday night.

Henderson sustained a "significant" hamstring tear and is now a doubt for the Six Nations.
Peter Nelson (dislocated foot) is out for the rest of the season while Dan Tuohy, who fractured an ankle, will be missing for at least two months.
Darren Cave's should injury will keep the centre out for at least two games.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Ulster back-row Roger Wilson had a back spasm before the Edinburgh game but he is expected to be available for Friday night's European Champions Cup encounter against Toulouse.
It's a grim injury toll for the Irish province resulting from the hard-fought 14-7 win over the Scots at Kingspan Stadium.
Henderson will be reviewed by a surgeon and a return date will be clearer after this consultation.
Full-back Nelson dislocated his left foot - it was relocated in the medical room at Kingspan Stadium and he will have surgery when the swelling subsides.
Tuohy also sustained ligament damage and the Ireland lock may require surgery while Cave suffered an AC joint injury.


Scotland's population has reached its highest ever total of 5,347,600, according to official figures.

Life expectancy is now 77.1 years for men and 81.1 for women - up 8 and 5.8 years since 1984.
Statistics published by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) showed 82,440 people came to Scotland from the UK and overseas and 64,860 left in the year up to June 2014.
There were 29,069 marriages, 56,725 births and 54,239 deaths.
The top causes of death were cancer (15,840), ischemic (coronary) heart disease (6,872), respiratory system diseases (6,707), and cerebrovascular disease (stroke) (4,123).
Same-sex couples accounted for 367 of the marriages, while there were 436 civil partnerships - 193 male couples and 243 female couples.
The average age at which people marry for the first time increased by about two years since 2004, to 33.2 years for men and 31.4 years for women.
Other statistics revealed included:
The 2014 records also showed the 1.3% increase in birth rate was the first rise following five consecutive annual decreases.
There were 455 adoptions recorded - about a quarter of what the figure was in the early 1970s.
And in mid-2014, there were 2.42 million households in Scotland, which was an increase of about 169,000 over the past 10 years.
THe NRS report has been published annually since 1855.
Tim Ellis, the registrar general of Scotland, said: "This is a time of substantial demographic change: the population is increasing and ageing.
"The ageing population is the most distinctive current demographic development and will bring both opportunities and challenges.
"Life expectancy at birth in Scotland, while increasing, is lower than in the UK as a whole, and lower than a lot of other developed countries.
"There is also considerable local variation in life expectancy. Good quality data contributes to research aimed at improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of health interventions, and securing lasting improvements to the health of the people of Scotland."
Mr Ellis added: "In the last half of the 20th Century, more people tended to leave Scotland than move here.
"However, since 2001, this has changed, with more people moving to Scotland than leaving. Around 60% of people moving to Scotland are from the rest of the UK, while around 40% are from overseas. Migrants tend to be younger than the population as a whole."


Police in Brazil say the Greek ambassador to the country was killed by a local police officer who was having an affair with the envoy's wife.

Kyriakos Amiridis had been missing since Monday. His body was found in a burnt-out car on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.
Police say the ambassador's Brazilian wife, Francoise Amiridis, plotted the murder with her lover.
Sergio Gomes Moreira Filho confessed to strangling him to death, police said.
Mrs Amiridis, 40, has been detained along with Mr Moreira, 29, and his cousin, Eduardo Melo.
Mr Melo is said to have been paid about 80,000 reais ($25,000; Â£20,000) to act as a lookout.
The three suspects have been questioned and will be held in police custody for another 30 days.
Investigator Evaristo Pontes Magalhaes described the murder as "a tragic, cowardly act," which police are treating as "a crime of passion".
"Francoise initially denied the facts. She said she had nothing to do with that. We managed to make her see that she had no alternative and that there was no point in continuing to deny it," said Mr Magalhaes at a news conference.
"She fell into contradictions, burst into tears and began to say that the police officer [Sergio Moreira] had carried out her husband's murder," he added.
Mr Magalhaes said Mr Moreira had a fight with the ambassador and ended up killing him when he went to confront the diplomat about claims of violence against his wife.
He said he acted in self defence. But Brazilian police have dismissed his statement.
They say the policeman's cousin confessed to moving the ambassador's body and gave full details of the plot to murder Mr Amiridis, implicating both Mr Moreira and Mrs Amiridis.
The 59-year-old ambassador had travelled from Brasilia to the city of Nova Iguacu, north of Rio, to spend the Christmas and new year holidays there with his wife and her parents.
The couple had been living together for 15 years and their daughter is 10 years old, local reports said.
Mrs Amiridis reported her husband missing on Wednesday.
She told police that he had left on Monday in a car he had rented. The burnt-out vehicle was found on Thursday under a flyover on one of the main access roads to Rio with a body inside.
The body was burned beyond recognition, but police said it was that of Mr Amiridis.
Investigators also said that they had found blood stains on the sofa in the house where the couple was staying and say he was probably stabbed to death there.
Mr Amiridis served as consul in Rio de Janeiro between 2001 and 2004 and returned to the country as ambassador earlier this year.


Demonstrators and police have hugged and shaken hands with members of the National Guard during a night of protest in Charlotte, North Carolina.

23 September 2016 Last updated at 14:12 BST
This was the third night of protests in the city, and the second with the National Guard on the streets, following the killing of Keith Lamont Scott on Tuesday.


Members of the RMT union at ScotRail have started another two-day strike.

A number of services have been cancelled and others will run less frequently. Further strikes will take place later this week.
The RMT is campaigning against the increased use of trains without guards, with the driver opening and closing the doors at stations.
Such operations are already common on the ScotRail network, particularly on suburban rail lines.
ScotRail has insisted that it would always ensure a second member of staff was onboard every train to assist the driver in emergencies.
The union believes the absence of a dedicated guard would make trains less safe.


A man who shot and killed his partner's son-in-law with a sawn-off shotgun after a family row in East Yorkshire has been jailed for 14 years.

Jonathan Smith, 38, died instantly when he was shot twice outside a bungalow in Melton on 20 May.
Peter Guy, 54, of Melton Old Road, was cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter last Friday after a week-long trial at Hull Crown Court.
He admitted five associated firearms offences at a previous hearing.
Guy has been sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court.
During the trial the court heard Mr Smith had driven from his home in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, to Guy's property and repeatedly crashed his lorry into his van and garage door after a family row.
The jury was played the emergency call to the police in which Guy was heard claiming he had been stabbed twice in the neck.
He was then heard to say: "I've shot him."
Guy's claim of shooting Mr Smith in self defence was rejected by the jury.


Approval has been given for a study where some cardiac arrest patients will be given a dummy drug, rather than adrenaline to kick-start their heart.

There are concerns that adrenaline, used for more than 50 years as a key part of resuscitation, can do more harm than good.
But the study will mean some patients across England and Wales being given a placebo without their consent.
Experts say the research throws up a number of ethical challenges.
More than 50,000 people suffer cardiac arrests outside of hospitals each year in the UK.
During arrests their hearts stop beating properly, preventing blood from being pumped around the body. Most people do not survive - currently only 8% leave hospital alive.
Paramedics follow a protocol for anyone found without a sufficient heartbeat - this can involve chest compressions, shocking the heart with a defibrillator and giving a shot of adrenaline.
But over the past decade some scientists have suggested adrenaline could do more harm than good.
There is some evidence it may damage the brain by reducing blood supply to the head and could diminish the chances of survival.
The Warwick University study will involve 8,000 people in London, Wales, the West Midlands, and the South Coast and north-east of England who have a cardiac arrest.
Half the patients will receive the dummy medicine and half will get adrenaline - but as they will be unconscious there will be no consent gathered as the drug is administered.
Paramedics will also not attempt to get consent from relatives or passers-by as the researchers emphasise that time is critical during resuscitation.
But they say local residents will be given information on the trial and details about how to opt out.
Depending on local arrangements, this could involve ringing their ambulance service and being put on a computerised register - but details are yet to be finalised.
After the arrest, relatives will not be told whether their family members received the drug or the dummy version.
Dr Daniel Sokol, a medical ethicist and barrister who is not involved in the study, said: "A challenging aspect of this research is the lack of informed consent regarding a life-and-death intervention.
"The question then is: 'Is this research sufficiently potentially beneficial that we can forego proper consent?'"
ANALYSIS: Ethics of life-and-death research
There will always be a drive to update conventional medical practice as science advances. And at the heart of modern trials is the idea of informed consent - all participants must agree to take part and be told about the risks.
But gaining consent for studies looking at life-and-death situations is difficult. People who are unconscious - either after a cardiac arrest or in intensive care, for example, will not be able to give consent while a study is taking place.
This raises questions about how to ethically advance treatment for cardiac arrest - which has extremely poor survival rates. The results of the trial could save many lives. But the researchers feel the only way to get these answers involves testing on a group of patients who cannot be part of the decision-making process.
And scientists will have grappled with the question of whether to inform relatives about the trial - whether the patient survives or not.
Researchers stress they have had lengthy discussions with the Oxford research ethics committee that granted approval for the study.
Prof Peter Weissberg, of the British Heart Foundation, said: "It is important to remember we don't actually know whether this routine use of adrenaline is a safe and effective practice.
"The concern is it could be doing patients more harm than good. The only way to answer this crucially important question is to do a well-designed clinical trial
"It is always difficult to conduct a trial in situations where people are too ill to give their consent. But there are well established ethical guidelines for undertaking such studies.
"What is unacceptable is to continue giving a treatment that could be doing more harm than good."
The study will start in the autumn.


UK productivity remains subdued despite stronger economic growth, official figures show.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said output per hour rose by 0.3% in the first three months of the year compared with the previous quarter.
It added this measure or productivity had grown by 1.3% in the year to the end of March, the fastest rate of growth since the start of 2012.
But productivity across the whole economy fell slightly, it added.
On Tuesday, the ONS revised UK economic growth up 0.5 percentage points for the year to the end of March to 2.9% and said the economy grew by 0.4% in the first three months of this year.
Official figures last month showed unemployment in the UK had fallen to 1.81 million and average wages rose at their fastest rate in four years.
The ONS tends to focus on output per hour as its main measure of productivity, claiming it is a more comprehensive way of measuring output..
It also looks at unit labour costs - the cost to companies of employing staff - as well as the number of available jobs, workers and hours worked.
Output per hour expresses the amount produced by a company after all its costs have been stripped out. The more efficient, or productive, the company, the greater its level of output per hour.
But the ONS said output per hour remained 1% lower on average in the first quarter of 2015 compared with the same period in 2008.
It said productivity remained "exceptionally weak" across many industries.
Output per hour in services - other than financial services - has grown by about 0.2% per quarter since the first three months of 2009, compared with 0.5% per quarter before the economic downturn.
Output per hour in manufacturing has expanded at an average quarterly rate of around 0.3% since the start of 2009, compared with almost 1% per quarter before that.
The Bank of England has consistently referred to the UK's productivity problem and it is a key concern for the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee - alongside inflation - in determining when to raise interest rates.
Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight, said if productivity had taken a significant lasting hit, it meant the economy had less "spare capacity" to grow without generating inflationary pressures and that interest rates would need to rise at an earlier stage.
Spare capacity is the Bank of England's measure of the extent to which the UK economy is underperforming, as a result of a lack of business investment either in hiring new staff, technology or machinery. It has become one of the key measures that will determine when interest rates begin to rise.
Mr Archer said one argument for continued low productivity was that employment levels largely held up throughout the financial crisis, with companies often switching staff to part-time roles, implementing pay freezes or reducing hours worked per member of staff.
He added: "If much of the weakness of productivity is cyclical, then it clearly should improve markedly as the economy sees sustained decent growth. The more that productivity improves, the greater the scope of the Bank of England to keep monetary policy very accommodative.
"However, if productivity fails to pick up appreciably over the coming quarters, it indicates that the economy has less potential to grow without generating inflationary pressures and that interest rates will likely need to rise at a faster rate than would otherwise be the case."
At the same time, the Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers' Index indicated growth in the UK's manufacturing sector slowed to its lowest pace in more than two years in June.
The closely watched index fell to 51.4 from 51.9 a month earlier.
Any reading above 50 indicates growth, while below 50 points to contraction. But Markit said the manufacturing sector was undoubtedly seeing a slowdown in growth, with production output expanding at its slowest pace since April 2013.
"The UK manufacturing sector had a disappointing second quarter overall," said Rob Dobson, economist at Markit.
"Growth trends in output and new orders were the weakest since the opening quarter of 2013, as a strong sterling exchange rate and subdued demand from mainland Europe offset the continued solidity of the domestic market."


"Yeshi" is still trying to come to terms with the trauma of discovering the body of her son being carried through the streets of the Ethiopian city of Ambo.

A 27-year-old rickshaw driver, he had been caught up in deadly protests between the police and students in the city in April.
They were demonstrating about plans to extend the administrative control of the capital, Addis Ababa, into Oromia state.
Oromia is the country's largest region and completely surrounds Addis Ababa - and some people feared they would be forced off their land and lose their regional and cultural identity if the plans went ahead.
The government says the "Masterplan", as it is known, would allow them to better extend city services to rural areas.
However for Yeshi - who asked for her name and those of her family to be changed - the heavy-handed response by the security forces that saw her son shot in the head is hard to fathom.
She had come across a group of people carrying a body and overheard people saying it was her son, Tamiru.
Unable to recognise his features as they were too disfigured, she identified him by his "clothes and shoes".
"I think they were killing people on purpose," she told the BBC, saying that Tamiru was not directly involved in any trouble that day.
Five other young people were also killed with bullet wounds to the head, she says.
One of her other surviving sons, Ibsa, said he was unable to believe that his brother was dead and asked for the coffin to be opened.
"His head was blackened and torn apart. The bullet had gone through his temple. You couldn't identify him by his face but I recognised his body," he said.
"He was a very good boy, level-headed. He did well in his studies. Nobody has a bad word to say about him... But what good is that now?"
Three months later it was a very different atmosphere in Ambo, which is about 125km (77 miles) west of the capital and was the focal point of the protests.
When the BBC team visited, it was in the middle of the graduation season and the area around the university was full of graduates in their gowns and caps ahead of their big ceremony.
Students were posing for photographs with armfuls of red roses wrapped in cellophane and the mood was one of celebration.
Yet this was the same place - the main entrance to Ambo University - where witnesses say the protesters and police clashed in April.
The government says that 17 lives were lost in the violence. Opposition, human rights groups and some eyewitnesses say the figure is much higher.
Ethiopia's Information Minister Redwan Hussein old the BBC the dead included five students and 12 civilians and strongly denies that the government was responsible for any of the violence.
The protest was hijacked by "rabble rousers" with a political agenda - "hell-bent on raising havoc", he said.
"They were shooting, they had guns - ammunitions," Mr Redwan said.
"They were attacking and fighting so it was not through the government shooting, or the police shooting that people died."
He dismissed accusations from international human rights organisations that police and government security forces shot at unarmed protesters.
"Whatever they said was not actually founded on facts."
The students, the minister added, had a right to ask questions about the "Masterplan" and that the government was "ready to discuss" it with them.
Mathewos Asfaw, general manager of the "Masterplan", told the BBC that the demonstrators had completely misunderstood the project and that no-one would be forced off their land.
"The plan doesn't have a single concept or idea of expansion, because it's not possible to expand the city of Addis beyond the current boundary and jurisdiction."
Ethiopia is no stranger to accusations of intolerance when dealing with its critics and opposition groups.
The UN Human Rights Council recently recommended that the country improve on its media freedom and pay more attention to human rights.
Mr Redwan says he has "no objection" to the recommendations as they are already "being implemented".
This is no consolation for Yeshi, who remains dressed in traditional mourning clothes.
"I'm very sad - until now I'm not right in the head. I'm walking around like a zombie. I'm not OK."


The Scottish government is taking fresh steps to try to stop local authorities breaking the council tax freeze.

The government has given councils details of the sanctions they would face if they broke ranks and raised the tax for the first time since 2007.
Local government organisation Cosla said councils would now face "draconian" measures.
It said it was now hard to see how Scotland's 32 local authorities could afford to put up council tax bills.
Further details of the offer being made to councils are still emerging.
But BBC Scotland understands it includes a bigger than usual stick to stop any council putting up the council tax.
BBC Scotland believes that any council which rejected the funding deal would lose money on three counts.
The three together are worth more than £408m to Scotland's councils.
The local authorities had been working on the assumption that if they put up council tax, they would lose the money they would have got for freezing it - but not lost any other revenue.
The latest arrangements may mean that Moray's proposed 18% council tax rise may no longer be a practical option.
The council may now need to either abandon the idea or propose an even bigger increase.
Cosla president Councillor David O'Neill said;  "Outrageous as it seems the effect of this draconian sanction regime is that any choice to put up council tax is now denied to any council.
"The sanction is so punitive that it is difficult to see how any council could run the risk of falling foul of it.
"For that reason it may well be that no council increases the council tax."
He added: "Make no mistake this is not a matter of choice for councils and this may be perceived as victory for Finance Secretary John Swinney but it is certainly not a victory for communities or democracy."
The deadline for councils to accept the funding deal has been extended to 2 February.
Councils were originally mean to tell the government what they were doing by 2 January.
Following an earlier meeting with council representatives, Mr Swinney said: "I am absolutely committed to continuing a positive, collaborative relationship with Scotland's local authorities, and I have engaged in open discussions with Cosla on what is a challenging but fair settlement for local government in Scotland.
"This settlement is an opportunity to transform the provision of social care in Scotland with a £250m investment in integrating health and social care services - helping to make our services fit for the challenges of the 21st century.
"We recognise that there are pressures on budgets being felt across the whole of the public sector, as well as in households throughout Scotland. That's why it is important to maintain the Council Tax freeze while we consider ways to replace it - as well as reimbursing local authorities to ensure they can continue to provide essential services."
He added: "The funding proposals I have set out for local government will protect our shared priorities and deliver practical financial support to increase the pace of reform and improve public services - I would urge councils to take up this offer."
Scottish Labour's Ken Macintosh said: "It must be beginning to dawn on John Swinney that his plan to force councils to accept half a billion pounds of cuts for local services like schools and social care is the wrong path.
"Scotland's councils have been treated by disdain by the SNP Government whilst being handed cuts which would devastate local services and cost up to 15,000 jobs.
Councils receive the vast bulk of their funding - including money raised from business rates - through the Scottish government.
The council tax is the only significant source of cash which they control, It has been frozen since 2007 through a carrot and stick approach - councils get cash specifically to compensate them for freezing the tax.
This means that any rise would need to be significant to be meaningful as they would lose this government cash.
The Scottish government cites independent research which found it had over-funded the council tax freeze - over five years the local authorities received £164.9m more than they would have by simply increasing council tax in line with the Retail Price Index.
However, the issue for many councils is the overall amount they receive from the government rather than the money for freezing the council tax.


Sira Berzas winces when she remembers the pain.

The acute ache started in her ankles before quickly spreading through her body, crippling her muscles, pounding her joints and leaving her hands and feet severely swollen.
Last summer, the 38-year-old from Antigua and Barbuda was struck down with the debilitating chikungunya virus which has swept across the Caribbean infecting more than 800,000 people since it was first detected in the region in December 2013.
The mosquito-borne disease, which originated in Africa and has no known cure, is characterised by the abrupt onset of fever, deep joint and muscle pain, headache, nausea, fatigue and a rash.
"I was fine when I went to bed," Ms Berzas says, "but when I woke up in the morning and tried to get up my ankles hurt so much I couldn't stand. It was very scary. After that I started getting different pains all over my body. Soon my hands were so swollen I couldn't hold anything."
Most patients recover fully although the pain can persist for several months or even years.
In older people the disease can cause death. According to World Health Organization figures, 176 fatalities across the Caribbean, Latin America and US were linked to the virus in 2014.
"I knew immediately it was chikungunya," Ms Berzas says.
"I didn't go to the doctor as it's expensive and everyone I knew who'd been to their GP was just told to take paracetamol and rest. I tried painkillers but nothing worked. The mornings were the worst; my joints were so stiff I could hardly move."
Ms Berzas is one of a growing number of sufferers who turned to natural remedies to alleviate the symptoms.
In Antigua, where the minimum wage is just $3 (£2) per hour and a visit to a conventional doctor can set one back $44, herbalists specialising in "bush medicine" are often the first port of call.
"When I got desperate I went to Dr Amu, the naturopath. He gave me two teas to drink and an oil to rub on my skin. It soothed the rash and diminished the pain a lot. It didn't go away but at least it was manageable," Ms Berzas recalls.
It was four months before the aches finally abated.
"Even now, 10 months later, my ankles still hurt in the morning. I don't know how I would have coped if it hadn't been for Dr Amu; I recommended him to lots of people. Nothing else worked for me," Ms Berzas recalls.
Self-taught naturopath Sylvester Tyrone "Amu" Motley prescribes a four-pronged approach to fighting chikungunya.
The first is a tea to be drunk three times daily on an empty stomach. It contains echinacea to boost the immune system, and chaparral and burdock root to purify the blood, ease pain and soothe the rash, he explains.
Second is a detox made by boiling five different plants in fresh spring water.
"Arnica, soursop and cattle tongue are wonderful cure-alls," Mr Motley, who scours the local countryside looking for the plants, says.
"Then there's neem, which is an antiseptic, and dandelion to cleanse the body. That should be drunk all day long instead of water."
He also makes a special oil to be applied after bathing and at night on critical parts of the body.
A staunch advocate of the power of plants, Mr Motley says he has not had the illness himself and believes that is largely due to his own intake of herbs.
"It's tried to come a couple of times but my body fights it off," he adds.
In the absence of scientific evidence, conventional doctors are more sceptical.
Dr Nick Fuller, whose GP practice is based in Antigua's capital St John's, told the BBC: "Herbalism is not proven so I couldn't recommend it.
"But I don't see any harm in it," he adds.
"At the end of the day, chikungunya is a virus and needs to run its course," he explains.
With no antiviral medicines available yet to fight chikungunya, the only sure-fire way to deal with it is not to get it.
The government is therefore trying to stem the outbreak in Antigua, which has seen 1,442 suspected cases to date, through preventative measures.
They have stepped up insecticide spraying in communities and made bulk purchases of bed nets and repellent.
A public education campaign urges residents to avoid mosquito bites by wearing clothes that cover the arms, legs and feet and to use repellents.


Ellie Simmonds and Bethany Firth broke their own world records as they secured more Rio qualification standards at the British Para-swimming trials.

Simmonds, a four-time Paralympic champion, took her S6 400m freestyle best to five minutes 18.69 seconds.
And Northern Ireland's Firth clocked 2:03.70 in the S14 200m freestyle, beating the 2:04.44 she set last year.
With one day of competition to go, 21 GB swimmers have achieved the qualification times for Rio.
Simmonds, who was disappointed after last year's World Championships, is attempting to win the 400m for the third Paralympics in a row.
"I didn't really want to go that fast at trials - I wanted to keep it for Rio," the 21-year-old told BBC Sport, after lowering her world record by 0.48 seconds.
"But I'm really happy to have pushed myself to that time and now I can work on the things I need to do in Rio, which is where it will really count.
"Everything is going really well. Last year at the worlds I didn't have the best of results and that has motivated me now.
"But I know Rio will be tough because Paralympic sport is moving forward so quickly."
Firth, 20, achieved her third qualification standard of the meeting after a battle with Paralympic champion Jessica-Jane Applegate, who also dipped under the required time.
Firth will finally make her GB debut at next week's European Championships in Madeira after switching nationality in late 2013.
"I wanted to give it my all out there and I did it," the Seaforde swimmer told BBC Sport.
"It was a really tough race and I was praying all the way to keep going.
"I could see Jess and she was going for the time and that encouraged me to touch the wall and keep ahead.
"The S14 category is getting bigger all the time and it is great that we can push each other on."
In the morning heats, Stephanie Millward (S9 400m freestyle) and Mikey Jones (S7 400m freestyle) added their names to the list of those to have reached qualification standards along with Tom Hamer (S14 200m freestyle), who broke his own British record in doing so.


Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech has announced his retirement from international football with the Czech Republic.

The 34-year-old is his country's most capped player with 121 appearances, having made his debut in 2002.
He was part of the Czech side that reached the semi-final at Euro 2004, losing to eventual champions Greece.
"When I was a kid, my ultimate dream was to play for the national team at least once," he told Arsenal's website.
"Having done it so many times makes me really proud."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.