I think the argument is that people are more skeptical of Amazon and Google behaving, perhaps justifiably so. But I guess my feeling is, even assuming they are bad actors and people's fears regarding these devices are realized, it still seems far less dangerous than the ways we've already allowed these companies to insert themselves in our lives and have just accepted. I feel like there is a relatively low ceiling to the damage that can be done by something like a Ring doorbell in the case Amazon lives up to people's worries. But the recent trend of these kind of fearmongering articles make it sound like it could be the end of human society and civil liberty.