Newsflash: if you’re using IP-connected devices that you can access from outside the home, chances are others can access it from outside your home, too. Especially if you haven’t changed the default passwords (or the manufacturer hasn’t left active backdoor passwords enabled).
I have been working in technology for nearly 30 years, and it only makes me leery of having any of this IOT stuff in my house. My TV has to be connected to the internets if I want to use the smart apps, but it doesn’t have a camera.
Yep. How many FReepers use a simple, common password? Then, they’ve got your name and email address, at the least.
You may have read about Samsung or other TV brands listening in to owners conversations.