Many manufacturers of "smart" devices refuses to say whether they use
them to
spy
on customers for the state.
The article exaggerates tremendously when it claims that avoiding
snooper devices is "near impossible". To avoid them in your own home
may be a little harder than falling off a log, but you can do it. We
should, I believe, reject any device which delivers data to a
company's server.
To be sure, I won't complain about the detection of murderers and
crooks; that, in itself, is good. What worries me is that the same
power can easily be turned against laudable "criminals" such as
Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. It is very good to catch real
terrorists, but dissidents are often labeled as "terrorists", and all
the same surveillance methods are used to catch them.