Digital Smarts - Avoiding a SciFi Nightmare with Your Digital Devices

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With the proliferation of “smart” home devices like Amazon’s personal assistant known as Alexa, The New York Times offers some security tips to ensure that your purchase doesn’t become a sci-fi-movie surveillance nightmare. Some of the recommendations from experts include carefully reviewing privacy policies, making sure the device has security features built in, and putting it on a guest Wi-Fi network so it can’t be used to snoop through your data.