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Apple, Amazon, MSFT and Google.

Are you comparing these to what is happening in China? Please.

Google smart home devices?

Or a Facebook smart home device.

Worse yet that bedroom webcam from Amazon. Idek who approved that.

Reminds me of the joke: "My wife asked me why I spoke so softly in the house. I said I was afraid Mark Zuckerberg was listening! She laughed. I laughed. Alexa laughed. Siri laughed. Google Voice Assistant laughed."

Personally I have no "smart" devices except mobile phones.

What are the Chinese going to do with my personal conversations? Apart from use it for marketing, for which there are already much easier ways of collecting data.

I'm far more worried about MY government collecting data and being in a position to make real use of it. Western corporations are more likely to play ball with western governments.