&quot;Home: The place we return to. A place of privacy, security, identity and belonging.&quot;<p>My problem with all of these services is that in order for them to be effective and provide the features they&#x27;re offering, you&#x27;re essentially giving up some of your privacy and potentially weakening your security by filling your home with sensors broadcasting their inputs to a 3rd party. Sure - maybe you&#x27;ll get a push notification if somebody breaks into your house. But you&#x27;re also creating a new vector of attack to your home - a camera and microphone, capable of broadcasting &quot;to the cloud&quot; to a startup&#x27;s servers that are hopefully designed in a way to safeguard, from both internal and external prying, the very-private data they&#x27;ll amass.<p>No connected system is impenetrable. And given the very public governmental pressure to have access to any and all information from technology firms, I&#x27;m not sure the benefits of these products outweigh the costs.