Oh yea, the surveillance is real. Thank you for the insights on your experiences as an employee of a cable company. The only internet app we use on that TV is Netflix and they keep a record of your viewing history so I saw no advantage to enabling the collection feature. I recall a bunch of convo when pokemon go came out about how they were using that game to map the real world for Google. I liked what @builderofcastles said about seeing what was running and what it was doing, that would go a long way in preventing unwanted surveillance.