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Your 'smart home' is watching?

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
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And in Britain,it's illegal but in The USA I doubt it's even being address especially after The invasion of The Congress with the questionable election results. Now with election laws being questioned in only the red states then we have a big problem in this Nation.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/05/tech-police-surveillance-smart-home-devices serf

Privacy protections in the United States are generally quite weak; when it comes to police purchases of private data, they are completely absent. This is one of the oddities of trying to update 18th-century rights to address 21st-century threats. At the time of the country’s founding, the framers wrote about protecting things like our homes, our papers and other physical objects. Flash forward to today, and these categories fail to capture most of our intimate data, including the ins and outs of your daily routine captured by a nosy electronic roommate – or a data broker.

Courts have been slow to update these legal categories to include computers and other electronic records. But while we now have the same protections for our laptops as our paper records, the matter gets much less clear in the cloud. The documents and data we access remotely every day can end up in a gray zone outside the clear protections afforded in our homes and offices.

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