You don’t have to opt in to anything. Even if you use the tv as a dumb disply with hdmi only it still spies on you.

“… I decided that the honourable course of action was not to waste the conduct committee’s time by appealing against the findings but to accept the appropriate sanction”.

I’m glad that some people still have honour and integrity and decide to take their punishment of 4 months and 5 months suspension without appealing it.