Re: you could simply not put the creepy things in your home
"Then again I am not a tinfoil hat paranoid open that believes everything the internet has to say.."
Neither are we, snowflake. You need to work on your critical thinking skills to figure out what's worth listening to. The big tech companies have been caught overreaching and violating our privacy over and over. But you don't believe that for some weird reason. Incident after incident fails to convince you. You are exactly their TARGET MARKET - gullible buyers who can't or won't recognize the frightening implications of these products.
Living proof that the Internet never made anyone smarter.