Consumers in this decade have filled their homes with devices packed with sensors, cameras and microphones. But they have few tools to control how and when these devices collect images, conversations or any other data about them, and few laws effectively restrict how this data can be used.
with footage from its security cameras, often without consent from its users.
From the start, privacy advocates have warned of the dangers associated with these devices, not just because they're embedded with cameras and microphones but because of the vast troves of data they routinely gather. In the past, users might have thought they were just a "cog in the machine" whose individual activity went unnoticed, but recent privacy failures have proven otherwise, said Jen King, director of consumer privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society.The privacy failures have not inspired people to dump their Echos and Google Homes en masse.
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