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When Your Home Electronics Become Corporate Listening Devices

My smart TV started showing me ads based on conversations it overheard and I feel like there is nowhere in my home I can speak freely anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The transformation of domestic spaces into sites of commercial surveillance destroys the fundamental privacy of the home as sanctuary.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Digital Life & Online Privacy?”

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