Mozilla releases privacy report on which holiday gadgets are too creepy

ronjor · Nov 14, 2018

By Shannon Liao@Shannon_Liao Nov 14, 2018

It found that the Nintendo Switch is not creepy, but a baby monitor is
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guest · Nov 14, 2020

These Are the Creepiest Gadgets of 2020, According to Mozilla
November 13, 2020
https://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-36-creepiest-gadgets-according-to-mozill-1845664481

The weather outside is turning frightful, and that means it’s time for the Mozilla Foundation to scare the crap out of you with its annual “Privacy Not Included” buyer’s guide.
Each year, the Mozilla Foundation judges a handful of gadgets based on their privacy chops, giving shoppers an easy way to judge whether a gift will divulge mountains of personal information about the user.

This year, 36 products reviewed by Mozilla’s non-profit wing utterly failed to meet its standards for privacy—while some you might expect to get low marks managed to clear the not-creepy bar.
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Google, a company you might equate with gross privacy violations, fared better than its Big Tech brethren. The Google Nest Mini, Nest Audio, Nest thermostat, Nest security cams, and Nest Protect smoke detector all landed in the “very creepy” category—not quite as bad as Facebook and most Amazon products.
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