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When couples realize their smart home has been listening

My partner and I discovered that our smart home devices have been recording conversations we thought were private and now we're questioning everything about what technology we actually want in our space. We both feel violated but we also love the convenience and can't agree on what to keep and what to remove.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The discovery that convenience has come at the cost of intimate privacy forces a reckoning between technological comfort and relational sanctuary.

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