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Whether it’s your air fryer or your video doorbell, many of us now use several smart devices in our day-to-day lives.
But research may have you reassessing which gadgets you keep in your home.
Experts from Which? have warned that four unexpected devices could be spying on you.
In their study, the team rated popular smart devices across six categories – consent, transparency, data security, data minimisation, trackers and data deletion.
Based on these ratings, the researchers gave each product an overall privacy score.
Their findings reveal that several popular air fryers can listen in to your conversations and even send your personal data back to China.
Meanwhile, several smart speakers are ‘stuffed’ with trackers – including Facebook and Google.
‘Our research shows how smart tech manufacturers and the firms they work with are currently able to collect data from consumers, seemingly with reckless abandon, and this is …