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can track your cycle choices and energy usage to suggest the best cycle options for you or even to rearrange the order of options to make the most selected cycles appear at the top of the list.. These devices can map out the layout of your entire home and use it to compute the most efficient way to clean it.
Whether or not these kinds of monitoring can be classified as “spying” is up to you and your tolerance for data privacy.Once you add a microphone and/or a camera, the potential for spying exponentially increases. If your smart device has one or both of these, they can be accessed by someone that isn’t you. Whether that be a malicious hacker, a government agency or the manufacturer of the device, both live and recorded data can be accessed.
That said, the odds of a hacker or a government agency accessing this data are slim to none for most people. The manufacturer is different — they record most if not all audio and visual data and use it to improve the functionality of their devices, especially if that device has a smart assistant.Smart assistants are the connective tissue that enables most of your smart devices to communicate both with each other and with you. The three most popular smart assistants come from Amazon, Google and Apple.
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