Your Smart TV Is Getting Too Smart--and Collecting Your Data

To the delight of binge-watchers everywhere, it's no longer prohibitively expensive to purchase a giant television. And those devices are also getting smarter, with features like voice commands, personalized recommendations, and built-in apps for Netflix and other streaming services. It's almost impossible to buy a TV without them. The average consumer might ascribe the declining price to a variant of Moore's law. "Right now, you're paying with your data, but you don't know the price," says Casey Oppenheim, CEO of Disconnect, a privacy-focused software company.