[bradenb]

I'm as paranoid about IoT devices being abused as anyone, but can you point out more than 1 or 2 examples of "It's never true?"

[authoritarian]

Police and the US government regularly abuse "legitimate" surveillance as well ass utilize illegal surveillance. There are a huge amount of examples. I have 0 faith that police cannot and will not abuse this

https://thinkprogress.org/new-york-police-nypd-will-deploy-f...

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/01/578369420/report-alleges-poli...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/26/police...

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/09/dark-side-fbi-dea-illega...

https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/issues/government-sur...

https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/privacy-and-su...

https://www.aclu.org/other/more-about-fbi-spying