*Your 'smart home' is watching — and possibly [sending] your data [to] the police.*

I am glad to see that awareness of this threat to everyone's freedom is spreading, but it continues to be associated with an inadequate proposed solution: laws to "protect privacy" by limiting how companies use the data that they accumulate about the public. This would reduce the abuse of people's accumulated personal data but not stop it.

Please don't use the word "sharing" to describe propagation of surveillance data.

The police are plural, so the pronoun "they" fits them — but "roommate" ought to be plural as well.

Before my freshman year of college, I stated my preference for a roommate that was invisible, inaudible and intangible (if I couldn't have a room of my own). I forgot to add deaf and blind.