According to a UK blogger, LG's smart TVs seem to be collecting personal data even when such functionality is explicitly forbidden by its user.

Doctor Beet noticed his LG Tv sending his private data. He even turned "Collection of watching info" off. How was this possible? He noticed that the TV was sending station metadata to an LG server, and it was sending the filenames of content on external USB storage plugged into the TV.

LG says that they are "looking into this now. We take these claims very seriously and are currently investigating the situation at numerous local levels since our Smart TVs differ in features and functions from one market to another. We work hard to get privacy right and have made this our top priority."

[Doctor Beet via Engadget]