The site Which? of the UK wants you to know that your fryer may be spying on you and sharing your data with third parties for marketing purposes.
We already know that smart devices generally track us and that the data collection often goes far beyond what is necessary for the product to function.
The site Which? is a UK organisation, a subsidiary of Consumers Union and constantly tests products on the market. So find out that three fryers he reviewed they wanted permission to record audio on the user's phone, for no particular reason.
Some of them wanted to know the gender and date of birth when creating an account holder, while a Xiaomi app connected to the fryer was found to be connected to trackers from Facebook, Pangle (the ad network of TikTok for Business ) and Chinese tech company Tencent.
Aigostar and Xiaomi air fryers were sending the owner's personal data to servers in China.
This of course begs the obvious question: why would you want an air fryer that connects to other appliances?
The website Which? reviewed smart watches, smart speakers and smart TVs.
Her analysis mentions a bunch of trackers, redundant links to Facebook, Google and digital marketing companies like Urbanairship.
A Samsung TV phone app requested eight dangerous permissions, such as being able to view all other installed apps.
All the devices tested wanted to know the exact location of the user, according to the researchers.
