She tested 210 smart devices. Here's what they're hiding | IoT with Anna Maria Mandalari

Great talk, it's very concerning the amout of data all companies want from us.

Very well documented material. Thanks for sharing and making people aware of these things which can be easily overlooked and forgotten.

Thank you Anna Maria and team for this important work, and thank you to the Royal Institution for bringing it to us!

I'm surprised you didn't mention the technology that was rolled out a few years ago where bluetooth enabled TVs started using a peer to peer network over bluetooth to bypass internet traffic monitoring. it was an update pushed over the air and was used to implement content ID. I always knew IoT devices were bad but it's shocking how bad IoT, BLE and even these security devices are.

My daughter and my ex both have the amazon devices in their homes. I told my daughter to pay attention to the advertisements that pop up on her Youtube page in relation to the conversations she has on the phone. She was shocked at how quickly adds popped up that were directly related to a recent phone conversation. She still has not uplugged that device yet however.

and people still complaint about EU having too many regulations, this is what happen when you allow corpos to run free

This is a decade late but good to see.

data for all insurance companies "NOT TO PAY".

I feel like a lab mice, tested by the filthy few.

My mother has a Apple phone with Siri turned off. Regularly, when we are in a conversation, her phone suddenly starts talking back or asking questions! So, always listening! My mother thinks it is funny, I am thinking it is very scary.😮

I prefer dumb devices.

I eschew new devices. All my stuff is OLD and dumb.

Literally as I was watching this Alexa misheard the video sound and did a bunch of stuff I didn't want. Oh, the irony.

I’m not at all surprised

Human nature is too aggressive to be trusted with technology. The difference between a tool and a weapon is who’s holding it. This is why we cannot have nice things.

I work for a company that makes medical devices and was just briefed that US insurance companies are about to start asking for devices to collect usage data otherwise they won't fund them. So our products will have to be built to track people even if we don't want to 😢

Create a stasi surveillance state and people will rightfully be outraged. But wrap it up under the guise of safety, convenience or entertainment and people will pay you for the privilege of bugging their own home.

My biggest gripe with it all is why are we, as the user, literally PAYING for these companies to take my data? It feels foolish.

The output that I receive from a smart speaker is simply not the same value that my data holds to them, so why should I be essentially taking the hit twice just for them to succeed in whatever agenda they have?

Is the ability to have my lights turned off automatically because I don't want to get out of bed really worth the money in my wallet and the price of having ALL my conversations audited by unruly and unethical billion dollar corporations for the rest of my life?

Smart devices aren't that smart, but we sure are dumb enough to buy those.

My girlfriend asked me why I spoke so softly around the house. I said I was afraid Mark Zuckerberg was listening. She laughed. I laughed. Alexa laughed. Siri laughed.

Right, be honest... how many of you are checking your TV's settings for "automated content recognition" right now? 👀
Drop the device that surprised you most in this one. For us it was the insulin pump hack! Proof that "smart" doesn't always mean "safe."