Amazon shut off a man’s smart home devices for a week after a delivery driver falsely accused the customer of hurling a racist slur via a doorbell intercom, the tech giant confirmed Thursday.
Seems like a good reason to get a doorbell that you can control yourself.
yet another reason to dislike IOT and devices/services that are reliant on phoning home to big brother.
Running HomeAssistant I’m probably a bit biased on the IoT front, but definitely agree that that traffic should not be leaving the premises unless it’s over a VPN to your own devices. I’ll give Nabu Casa a pass here as it’s essentially the same thing.