I thoroughly vetted this information back ten, twelve years ago. I won't go into the lengthy discussion why. There were cases brought against a company, I want to say it was one of the cable companies, Verizon comes to mind, where they were putting camera's in television cable boxes and spying on people...but it wasn't a camera per say operated like we think, it had the ability to show range of size of the person(s) in the room but not the actual person. By doing such they could gage what kind of commercials to aim at the individuals as they were watching television. So if it was adult sizes they'd do adult content ads, if it was kids they'd do kid content ads. If I remember right, it was in the state of California where it was first introduced and for settlement of the lawsuits legislation was passed they couldn't do this without written or prior consent. Which is why I think you see now with these new streaming televisions that you have to give consent to view streaming stuff for free. There, I guess, has to be a trade off somewhere. But do people literally know camera's could be in those televisions...I just bought a streaming television, I haven't read the agreement as I haven't used the free stuff yet. My kids have net flick so I watch that if I feel inclined to watch television. I don't know tv bores me, I end up falling to sleep, probably why I haven't subscribed to other channels yet but I'd opt to pay the few extra bucks if I wanted commercial free, it's usually during commercials I fall to sleep...lol. This television though does ask you what room of the house the television is in...so that's rather odd. What else I found odd was in a world where everything lights up and flickers driving you nuts this television on/off button doesn't stay lit so you really can't tell if it's on or off even if you weren't using it you really don't know if they have a way of turning it on without you knowing it. Which really sent my mind ablaze the other day after I had returned from the store and something I had bought but never shopped for online or googled for showed up in an ad. That was strange. Really strange. I don't know if there's some link between a rewards site I frequent where I can view what I bought and got rewarded for buying or if the television is spying on me....lol. I figure they'll eventually get bored, bigger fish than me to advertise to.