In my opinion, data is our most
important personal possession in life
(no, despite what you might have been
told, it’s not that shiny SUV you just
picked up), yet most of us will happily
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Whether it’s inputting your credit card
details for online purchases, sharing
your media to online storage services,
or even just installing a smart
thermostat in your home, our data, and
therefore our personal freedoms, are
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just strangers knowing a great deal
more about you than you’d like, it’s
what those same strangers are doing with your data that’s really
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protected when you give it to trustworthy–looking companies, but
is that really the case? When you sign up to social media online, or
create a new account for that smart camera app on your iPhone,
do you really know what you’re letting yourself in for? Even if
those companies promise to leave your data alone, and adhere to
that, is it really safe from prying eyes outside of that company?
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month’s Start, we’ve taken a look at some of the recent privacy
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most is the potential for disaster when it comes to smart home
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I no longer monitor my sleeping baby with a smart camera; now I
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Some of you, our readers, wonder the same thing, which is why
this issue’s Home Life (p70) is tackling the idea of taking your
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NICK ODANTZIS, Editor
Twitter: @maclife
THE TEAM
Alex Cox
Contributor
Alex has 43 smart
cameras installed in his
home, but none of them
actually work.Matt Lochrie
Art Editor
Spent the issue drawing
a variety of smart home
objects with eyes to creep
out Nick.Iain Noble
Production Editor
Iain wonders what George
Orwell would’ve thought
about tech firms spying
on us. It’s all a bit 1984 ...6 APR 2020 maclife.com