These days, whenever you buy something with "smart" features you are being watched. These goods are so cheap because these "smart" electronics providers are silently large data brokers.
When it is free, or laughably cheap, you are the product. This was always the case, but now more than ever. So yes, your air fryer with that funky app is listening in.
https://gizmodo.com/merry-christmas-your-new-air-fryer-is-spying-on-you-2000539195
#privacy #electronics #IoT
Koen Hufkens, PhD /
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2024-12-16 16:09:32
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