Analyze smart home platform terms for voice recording, occupancy tracking, device bricking rights, ecosystem data sharing, and energy monitoring exposure.
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Smart home devices listen, watch, and learn your patterns. These provisions reveal how your home life data is collected, shared, and potentially used against you.
Voice assistants listen for wake words but may record before and after. These recordings are sent to servers, reviewed by humans, and stored—capturing private conversations.
Motion sensors, door locks, and lights reveal when you're home, asleep, or away. This pattern data is valuable to insurers, burglars, and advertisers.
Companies can remotely disable your devices or discontinue cloud services. Your expensive smart devices may become useless if the company shuts down features.
Enabling skills, integrations, or third-party apps shares your data with those developers. Your smart home data flows to countless external parties with varying privacy practices.
Smart thermostats and plugs reveal detailed energy patterns. This data shows when you're cooking, watching TV, working from home, or running specific appliances.
Companies push updates that may change functionality, add data collection, or remove features you relied on. You may have no ability to decline or rollback updates.
Common terms in smart home platform agreements affecting users.
Disputes resolved through arbitration.
Cannot join group lawsuits.
Voice recordings collected.
Requires internet connection.
Automatic firmware updates.
Works with select devices.
Features may be modified.
Children's data handling.
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