Some new refrigerators have cameras on the inside... So you can connect remotely and see what you need to restock...
Right... As I said, SOME few AI/IoT ready... But by far and away, that is in the 'feature' realm, and adds expense, so the folks that DO buy it, WANT it. MOST appliances do not have such ridiculous complication. Your average refrigerator is nothing but.
And yes, no Alexa, Cortana or Siri allowed in this house short of the cell phones.
Right. I was very late to the smart phone game BECAUSE I didn't want an open mike... Now I use Giggles Assistant, because it is easier for me than hauling out my glasses every thime to see the dang phone. That is my CHOICE. Giggles can be disabled with ease.
The one item people have to be careful of is smart TVs. Some do have cameras so the user can make jesters to control it. Don't like that at all. I make sure the TVs I buy don't have that "feature". I also look for any possible camera locations on the ones I buy and have never found one.
Right. I don't do smart, and I am aware that SOME do have cams and mikes - But again they aren't hidden. you know you are buying that and are probably buying that ON PURPOSE, because it costs more. Mine are all basically big-ass monitors serving a computer, so the smart in the one I do have (found free and fixed), the smart is disabled. And it has no cam or mike. There ARE such things as pinhole cams and mikes that are easy to miss if not looking for them, but that ain't easy to miss looking from the INSIDE. And I have been inside a ton of computers, TVs, microwaves and other appliances, and those things are not there.
It's hokey-tooter tinfoil-hattery nonsense.