Yup, Smart TV’s of any brand (at least in the US) are essentially spyware. I made a video about it recently.

The upside is that if you don’t connect your TV to the Internet, all that data just sits in its internal memory and doesn’t go anywhere. So don’t connect it.

The weirdest thing in all this is that it’s Texas, of all places, leading the charge to hold these TV manufacturers accountable. (And Ken Paxton, the most cartoonishly corrupt politician in recent memory at that.)