In fairness, they have not earned the benefit of the doubt based on past behavior.

Still, calling it "PRIVACY HORROR" as per original post is typical twitter-style sensation seeking. It's an opt-in dog barking detection that causes local chip to listen for... dog barking

These folks recently did tests on major TV brands, not accepting the on-device consent forms, and then recording how much data they continued to send after consent was denied (which itself is not always possible). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_GK06_3UY8

Samsung was the single brand reviewed which actually stopped sending data after the user told it to do so.

I'm pretty sure it was actually LG?