Living in a smart home neighbourhood is both convenient and sometimes creepy admit the residents of Black Diamond a suburb of Seattle, The younger generations of the family love using the technology to voice-control their home lighting, setting up reminders and also using it to call people and play videos on their display screens. However, the older ones feel really threatened by the surveillance features that accompany the smart home facility this is mainly because of the presence of cameras in most of the rooms and the exterior walls that track motion both inside and outside the house. automatic switches save data and doorways keep a log of people, this data can be stolen by someone in order to make a revenue out of it which posses a serious threat. Amazon has a tie-up with construction companies inorder to promote the use of their smart speakers and voice control devices, this also gives the construction agency a unique selling point over other builders in the locality. But is all this high tech stuff really worth what’s at stake? Read More>>