I'm starting to think we need an equivalent of UL certification or even the old "BABT approved" stickers for consumer protection.
UL provides a bunch of non-obvious to the user but critical for safety rules for mains-connected devices. Likewise users are subject to non-obvious privacy threats from internet-connected devices (leakage of personal information, injected advertising or referral links). These should be at least clearly labelled.
So Android devices would get a "yellow" rating for "transmits personal information securely to Google" and these Lenovo laptops and Samsung TVs would get "red" for "transmits personal information in cleartext".
UL provides a bunch of non-obvious to the user but critical for safety rules for mains-connected devices. Likewise users are subject to non-obvious privacy threats from internet-connected devices (leakage of personal information, injected advertising or referral links). These should be at least clearly labelled.
So Android devices would get a "yellow" rating for "transmits personal information securely to Google" and these Lenovo laptops and Samsung TVs would get "red" for "transmits personal information in cleartext".