Palmer Luckey just blew the whistle on smart TVs straight-up spying -- the Oculus founder and defense tech guy dropped a massive thread on X warning your LG or Samsung set is snapping screenshots every 15 seconds or every minute via Automatic Content Recognition even when you're just using it as a dumb monitor over HDMI, then shipping that data off to ad servers and who knows where else. He cited a legit peer-reviewed study from UC Davis and crew proving it's not paranoia, called it a "massive and growing" national security nightmare because classified briefings and sensitive stuff on screen get scraped and sent abroad -- yeah users have zero clue their fancy panel is a surveillance tool and Luckey’s only half-joking when he says smart TVs should probably be illegal.