The connected smart home in the future will change people's lifestyles, and it will bring us many conveniences, such as more efficient use of energy, various home appliances can be connected together through the Internet, and cloud-based home security .

The performance of the smart home will be amazing, but it will also bring important questions about privacy protection.

We can already see a little shadow of the future living area from a product similar to Nest, a smart thermostat connected via WiFi. Every year, a large number of the latest connected devices and home appliances are displayed at the CES Consumer Electronics Show. Each new product has brought us closer to the so-called "Internet of Things". From big-name Internet service providers to unknown startups, all companies want to enter the field of smart homes and develop innovative products that can make people's family life more efficient, safe and comfortable. I believe that in the near future, robots like Jetsons can also feed pets at home.

If you think digital privacy is still a controversial issue, then wait and see.

Government orders for service providers to submit user personal information are increasing

In recent years, Internet service providers and mobile operators have discovered that government orders for them to submit users ’personal information are increasing. According to the New York Times, only AT & T receives 700 such orders every day. The same is true of other service providers. Operators and Internet service providers receive tens of thousands of orders from local law enforcement agencies, federal government departments and courts every day to submit user data. In many cases, they are willing to submit user data. But they usually do not disclose this.

The rapid growth of government orders for service providers to submit user data reflects the rapid popularity of smartphones and other networked devices among ordinary consumers. As the number of these devices increases, some consumers will naturally use them to do bad things. But as we have seen, the speed of technological development is much faster than the speed of the revision of laws in our society for privacy protection.

Why is it so important for companies like Verizon and Comcast to handle their user profiles? Because each of them is selling smart home products, and those products can collect much more data about the lives of users than before.

Rebecca Jeschke, director of media relations at the Electronic Border Foundation (EFF), said: "The data collected through smart home products may be very detailed personal privacy information."

Just by analyzing the electricity consumption of a certain family, it can be inferred that the family's plans and lifestyles, even including which household appliances a family member will use on a certain day.

Yeschke said: "Technology is changing with each passing day, and soon you can tell when someone has opened the refrigerator or how much food is in the refrigerator through the amount of electricity used. And this does not require his refrigerator to be connected to the Internet. The results can be obtained only by analyzing the power consumption. "

Your smart home will be a treasure trove of data

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