In living rooms around the world, a quiet reckoning is unfolding: the screens we invite into our homes may have long been watching back. Security researchers have documented that LG smart televisions — present in hundreds of millions of households — are engineered to collect audio, device data, and location information continuously, even in apparent dormancy, feeding a commercial surveillance apparatus that reaches well beyond the television itself. The investigation raises a question as old as trust itself: when we welcome a technology into our most private spaces, what exactly have we agreed