Except that due to the completely open-ended terms of service that’s the way it could actually work tomorrow - the hardware is capable of it today. Hell, for all we know, that’s the way it is working today - all we are going on is trust that the way we’ve been lead to believe it works is the way it currently works.
There is precedent. Vizio tvs do low-rez framegrabs of everything you watch regardless of source (catv,dvd,pvr,roku,etc) and stream them back to the mothership. That was not publicly known until someone went full wireshark on one and discovered it.
