▲ 424 ▼ New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. (lemmy.ca) submitted 2 years ago* by northendtrooper@lemmy.ca to c/technology@beehaw.org 118 comments fedilink hide all child comments CAFE by GE for those who are wondering. We are renovating our house including all new appliances. I have told my partner to make sure we get non smart appliances. This is why. Yes I can setup a VLAN for it to be on but that's not the point.
[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 33 points 2 years ago* (2 children) But they told me I can just not connect it to the internet and it'll be just like any dumb device. Eventually these things will come with modems built in so you can't even do that. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 30 points 2 years ago (1 child) My APAP machine has a sim card and unless I am careful to not disable airplane mode every time I start it up, it will send all of my health data to company that I have signed no agreement with. I explicitly declined to agree to the privacy policy of the company that sold it to me. If I find my data in a breach, lawyers will be involved. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago Hopefully you don't live in the US where your insurance company can buy that data and use it to deny you coverage or raise your rates. They already do it with cars why not CPAP machines. permalink fedilink source parent [+] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 30 points 2 years ago (1 child) My APAP machine has a sim card and unless I am careful to not disable airplane mode every time I start it up, it will send all of my health data to company that I have signed no agreement with. I explicitly declined to agree to the privacy policy of the company that sold it to me. If I find my data in a breach, lawyers will be involved. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago Hopefully you don't live in the US where your insurance company can buy that data and use it to deny you coverage or raise your rates. They already do it with cars why not CPAP machines. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago Hopefully you don't live in the US where your insurance company can buy that data and use it to deny you coverage or raise your rates. They already do it with cars why not CPAP machines. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Starbuncle@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent