The disturbing thing today about smart TVs in particular is that it&#x27;s increasingly difficult to buy a TV <i>without</i> those features. Personally, I have no interest in them even without the obvious security and privacy concerns. I want my TV and speakers to be as good as possible at showing pictures and making sounds, and to accept signals from whatever sources I want to use in sensible ways. Everything else is just more cost, more scope for failure, and less future-proofing.<p>The <i>really</i> disturbing thing about a lot of these IoT devices with sensors and remote communications in the future will be when they no longer rely on an explicit Internet connection being provided via the home network, and instead use some sort of mesh arrangement where they can get online independently and you won&#x27;t even know about it. At that point, I think robust laws about both disclosure and the ability to opt out will probably be necessary.