{"id":8365,"date":"2022-12-20T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T10:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/are-your-gadgets-watching-you-how-to-give-the-gift-of-privacy\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T10:39:30","slug":"are-your-gadgets-watching-you-how-to-give-the-gift-of-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/are-your-gadgets-watching-you-how-to-give-the-gift-of-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Are your gadgets watching you? How to give the gift of privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our guide to the data collected by popular smart devices, from sleep and fitness trackers to DNA kits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The season of holiday gift buying is upon us, and it can be hard to resist the coolest new tech gadgets. But not all items are created equal when it comes to privacy, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, there are few limits on what companies can do with your data, putting the onus on us to do our homework, says Hayley Tsukayama, a senior legislative activist at the digital advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She urges people to think through the privacy implications of gifts they\u2019re giving to friends and family.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/20\/privacy-holiday-gift-guide-tech-smart-devices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f859006479fb07008931ca0b79abc2b61dda56d0\/0_0_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=eb75eff687ada96804c2fcb2671e6779\" title=\"Are your gadgets watching you? How to give the gift of privacy\" \/>Our guide to the data collected by popular smart devices, from sleep and fitness trackers to DNA kits<br \/>\nThe season of holiday gift buying is upon us, and it can be hard to resist the coolest new tech gadgets. But not all items are created equal when it comes to privacy, experts say.<br \/>\nIn the US, there are few limits on what companies can do with your data, putting the onus on us to do our homework, says Hayley Tsukayama, a senior legislative activist at the digital advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She urges people to think through the privacy implications of gifts they\u2019re giving to friends and family. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our guide to the data collected by popular smart devices, from sleep and fitness trackers to DNA kits The season of holiday gift buying is upon us, and it can be hard to resist the coolest new tech gadgets. But not all items are created equal when it comes to privacy, experts say. In the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/are-your-gadgets-watching-you-how-to-give-the-gift-of-privacy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are your gadgets watching you? How to give the gift of privacy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}