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Agreed.

There was the instance of LG being outed for collecting the names of images/movies/etc read from USB media being reported back to a central server but not in the same Orwellian sense that webcams forever monitoring video streams and archiving conversations.

I haven't read of any exploits of smart TVs being used to monitor subject. Feasible? Sure. Reality? Probably not.

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I haven't read of anything specific to smart TVs either. But here's my concern: this can (and is) happening with webcam-enabled, network-connected computers. A smart TV is essentially just a computer that's _always_ network-connected and, as evidenced by someone walking into a room and saying "TV on," always on as well.

Feasible? Very. Reality? We don't hear about every detected exploit ... Smart TVs are new enough that, even if this _is_ happening today, we won't hear about it in the media or online for quite some time.

There's also further insight in the comments: http://eamann.com/tech/is-your-tv-watching-you/#comment-2529

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