That gleaming 85-inch smart TV you just bought for what looked like a steal might not be such a bargain after all. The hidden cost goes far beyond the price you paid at the register. The truth is, your smart TV is probably spying on you. Not with a tiny hidden camera, but in a way that is far more subtle and, in many ways, more invasive.

So is your TV spying on you? The answer is yes, though not in the way most people imagine. Some models do include cameras for video calls, but the real surveillance happens silently in the background through sophisticated data collection.

Smart TV manufacturers, along with companies behind popular streaming devices like Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, and Google TV, have a name for this practice. They call it post-purchase monetization. That simply means the

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