Your Kitchen Appliances Are Watching You, Security Expert Warns
- More connected household objects collect personal data
- Vendors should be more transparent on data use, Kaspersky says
A camera unit sits inside a Vitafresh smartfridge refrigerator.
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Your fridge is getting so smart, security-software maker Kaspersky Lab thinks you probably shouldn’t trust it.
As makers of household appliances fill their machines with computer chips to make them smarter, consumers and privacy watchdogs should beware the data collected by these objects and how it’s used, Marco Preuss, a director on Kaspersky’s global research and analysis team in Europe, said at the IFA consumer electronics conference in Berlin.