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Feb 16, 2019 00:00

Apparently vendors of Smart Home devices are under pressure from Amazon and Google to share their data.

From https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3070965/amazon-google-smart-home-trackingGiven that companies like Logitech ( Read more... )

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achinhibitor February 19 2019, 02:40:31 UTC
How much extra will one have to pay for the device not to have it flog your data to all and sundry?

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r_ness February 19 2019, 02:43:41 UTC
Does Google offer that option with any other service? (Serious question.)

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achinhibitor February 20 2019, 03:37:20 UTC
More likely, you'll have to buy the thing from a different company with an entirely different business model. Where it gets ugly is that there might not be enough customers who care about privacy to support even one manufacturer of smart home devices.

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