Specifically,
Illinois Passes Bill to Prohibit Warrantless Data Collection from Household Electronic Devices
Headed to the governor’s desk.
While it’s good they addressed this, folks who use these massive security breach devices (Alexa, Ring, Echo, and other IoT devices) are already being spied on by others who are just as nefarious as government agencies. Perhaps not as powerful as government agencies, but just as interested in jamming folks up in their own ways. (“Oh, but you use FarceBook.” Yeh, but when I do, FarceBook thinks I am hundreds of miles or more away from my location, among [many] other obfuscation measures.)
*smh*
Ah, but if you happen to have an Internet domain name… Well the registrar makes your address available via a whois query. Unless you didn’t give a valid one or have moved without updating it.
Yeh, Perri, which is why I said “a little.” It’s far from enough, of course, but little things are still worth a little.