Worst in Show CES products put your data at risk, cause waste: advocates say [Video]

LAS VEGAS — So much of the technology showcased at CES includes gadgets designed to improve consumers’ lives—whether by leveraging AI to create devices that help people become more efficient, creating companions to cure loneliness, or providing tools that help people with mental and physical health.

But not all innovation is good, according to a panel of self-described dystopia experts who have judged some products as “Worst in Show.” The award, which no company wants to win, recognizes the “least repairable, least private, and least sustainable products on display.”

“We’re seeing more and more of these things that have basically surveillance technology built into them, and it enables some cool things,” Liz Chamberlain, director of sustainability at the e-commerce site iFixit, told The Associated Press. “But it also means that now we’ve got microphones and cameras in our washing machines, refrigerators and that really is an industry-wide problem.”

The fourth annual contest announced its decisions Thursday.

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