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Sometimes it feels like somebody’s watching me – the risks of connected devices

Image of a doorbell device with a built-in camera made by home security company Ring.
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Julie DiMauro

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Technology that connects us and provides the opportunity for greater flexibility is also blurring boundaries and, in doing so, increasing risk.

On February 16, thousands of Wyze security camera owners opened their apps and discovered they were seeing images from other customers’ devices, including, in some cases, access video. This incident had been preceded by another Wyze privacy breach five months before, when a small group of the service’s customers were

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