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Almost every company will use your data for analysis of some kind, such as your security app activity. Lately, many are also recruiting videos to train their AI if you sign up for cloud storage. Your best bet is to look for companies such as Ecobee that require you to opt in for sharing data for wider purposes, and companies that offer settings to automatically erase stored data or not to use it for analysis. Setting up your own privacy zones can also help limit what companies have access to.  For more information, check out my guide on the Alexa settings you should change for privacy, and the

I like many Nest/Home products, but Nest's approach to security and privacy is a mixed bag. Similar to Amazon, Google is happy to gather as much data as possible and has been sued multiple times for violating privacy restrictions set by states and countries. While Nest itself has remained largely free of vulnerabilities thanks to Google's own security policies, a couple of notable issues give me pause. There was that infamous incident where early Home speakers accidentally eavesdropped on users in 2017 (something that has not happened since). More recently, a study found that promptware or Gem