Your air deep fryers and other intelligent devices such as smart TVs and smart watches collect data from you, violate your privacy, investigation to? revealed in December.
According to Technuk research, it is assumed that four out of five people in the UK own at least one intelligent device and are therefore at risk that some manufacturers “push the limits of what is acceptable to privacy”.
This caused the Office of the Commissioner for the Information Commissioner (ICO) to promote new consumer privacy instructions from 16 June 2025.
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In the increasingly interconnected world Stephen Almond, Executive Director of Regulatory Risk on ICO, he said: “We should not choose between the benefits of intelligent products and our own privacy.”
“We all have the right expectations of privacy in our own homes, so we must be able to believe that intelligent products respect our privacy, use our personal data responsibly and only in the way we expect,” he added.
Here is what the investigation revealed:
Which? Studies, three air deep fryers, produced by Chinese Xiaomi, Tencent and Aigostar, have seen sound on their owners’ phones for no reason.
The investigation also claimed that Fryers Aigostar and Xiaomi sent personal data to Chinese servers, although the Privacy Notification that the product has identified this product.
Andy Laughlin, a technical expert in whom?, Said some companies were pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable in privacy.
“Whether it is a deep fryer that wants to know your exact location, or the Smartwatch application that listens when you sleep, it is clear that some companies are pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable to privacy,” Laughlin said.
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The investigation also found that Huawei Ultimate Smartwatch asked for nine “risk” telephone permissions that were the most of all devices in the study.
Huawei said all the permits he demanded have a legitimate need.
What are the new ICO instructions?
ICO on June 16 stated that manufacturers and developers must “accept data protection according to the proposal and default approach”, ie data protection when the device is designed and then during the product life cycle.
A guard dog recommends a number of questions that developers should ask, including, “Do you need to use personal information?”
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New instructions also include smart watches and fitness followers. ICO warns that information such as user BMI or fertility is calculated as a special category data and should be treated with extraordinary caution.
“If you bring a new intelligent product to your home, you can feel confident that we have our backs.”
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