Under pressure in an interview, yesterday, I found myself saying "'The Internet of Things' is short for 'The Internet of Things you don't need, sending surveillance data you don't want, to people you don't know.'"
What is worse, your data being sent to people you know or to people you don't know?
Why? Because I know Google has systems in place to detect sysadmins browsing in data unrelated to their job and I know they have fired people over it even if was tought to have been done with good intentions.
Edit: as for tracking I wish they would up their game and stop providing ads for <insert eastern country here>-dating.<tld-of-the-day>
I wish they would take into consideration that I am happily married with more than 3kids, belongs to a subset of the population that has way less than 10% divorce rate and I might even be in the market for a new car at some point.
In fact I would even tell them if they asked.
At the interview for my current job I was asked how I'd secure a remote service. My first response was along the lines of "Ask someone who actually knows about security, because I know just enough that I'd probably mess it up".
Smart, connected things? Yes, maybe.
Smart things connecting over the Internet to a corporate cloud? Hell no.