My smart fridge tried to rat me out to my insurance company

I bought a cheap smart fridge that tracks grocery habits, thinking it was just a gimmick. A week later, my health insurance app started asking weird questions about my 'dietary patterns' and offering 'personalized wellness tips' based on my fridge data. I spent 3 hours digging through the fridge's privacy settings, which were buried under 5 different menus, to find it was sharing data with 'third party partners'. Has anyone else had an appliance basically snitch on them?

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grant.sam5d ago

That's why I unplugged the "smart" features on my coffee maker. It wanted to connect to my phone just to make a pot of coffee... the terms of service said it could share usage data with "affiliates".

rose_craig975d ago

Seriously, they can share your coffee habits with random companies? That's way too much info just for a morning brew. I don't blame you for unplugging it.