Your LG TV may be phoning home, and reporting on your activities
Now, I knew about monitoring of TV shows watched (a Smart TV advertisement that shows in Australia flashes a brief, small font, warning across the bottom of the advertisement) but I didn’t know about the monitoring and transmission of information about personal media files…
This is worth a read: http://grahamcluley.com/2013/11/lg-smart-tv-can-spy/
Original, detailed, article: http://doctorbeet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-usb-filenames-and.html