Whether you want it or not your home might have a smart meter for electricity,gas or water. Your Energy/Water supplier knows a lot about you already, they use

Whether you want it or not your home might have a smart meter for electricity,gas or water. Your Energy/Water supplier knows a lot about you already, they use this information to give you better experience or offer services. Sure there isn't the risk that this will brick or stop working but you don't have that privacy in some parts of the world, and in the end it's about making money. If you buy an IoT product that can't function without the internet, or can't have that smart turned off you you bought a bad product and you should feel bad.