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Morons buying moronic 'smart' devices, unable to understand that they're the product, not the consumer and they have sold away the rights to their eyes and ears with their purchases.
My house contains no smart devices that can harvest data from me (my mum does use a samsung smart TV from 2016) and all devices have everything disabled and other things installed to block data collection and tracking... I can't stop 100% of it, but what little trickle they do get is basically worthless.
My eyes and ears are not for sale, nor is my privacy.
Did you see the research about how they were able to use the vibrations from your laser mouse to accurately determine what was being said out loud? Or how they can map rooms and detect motion with wifi. Enforable and painfully punished laws must be written not consuming one brand is not enough.
I did, but that's not something that can easily be used in the wild.... As for plans and layouts... those plans are located with local planning depts anyway. Proof of concept and a practical use for them are often very different... But yes... criminal charges need apply, not civil ones... and as I'm in the UK, perhaps they could bring terrorism charges against them too... they like doing that to people not actually committing acts of terror these days.
Don't understand your downvotes, but probably owners of such bugs :-)
People will go to great lengths to excuse and justify their own idiocy, rather than suffer the simple acceptance they they could have been wrong... and one of these idiots suggested it was me who had 'hubris' :)
If there is a trickle, you do not know what you're doing.
This whole comment has a, "I am very badass" vibe to it.
You're probably sending more data to the cloud than most because of the hubris.
Wow, you are soo cool and unique to realize that the consumer is not the customer, noone has ever figured out that before!
No one asked about the status of smart home devices in your home.
Wow you are so cool and unique to comment on an opinion.
No one asked your opinion on people's opinions.
At least their comment wasn't a waste of time and now I'm wasting more time.