Data Protection

Check what your smart home devices actually record and send

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A smart speaker, camera, or video doorbell is a microphone or lens permanently placed in your home, sending data to a company's servers by design — that's easy to forget once it's installed and working. Go through each smart device's app settings and check what's actually being recorded, how long it's kept, and whether it's shared with third parties or used to train other products. Turning off features you don't use (always-listening modes, cloud storage you never review) is often just a settings toggle away, once you actually go looking.

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