Many manufacturers of "smart" devices refuses to say whether they use them to spy on customers for the state.

The article exaggerates tremendously when it claims that avoiding snooper devices is "near impossible". To avoid them in your own home may be a little harder than falling off a log, but you can do it. We should, I believe, reject any device which delivers data to a company's server.

To be sure, I won't complain about the detection of murderers and crooks; that, in itself, is good. What worries me is that the same power can easily be turned against laudable "criminals" such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. It is very good to catch real terrorists, but dissidents are often labeled as "terrorists", and all the same surveillance methods are used to catch them.