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Your Broadband Provider Can ­se Your Smart Devices to Spy on You


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Control house from phone

Who's watching when you control your house from your phone?

Credit: Guido Mieth/The Image Bank/Getty

How much of your privacy would you trade for a smarter home? Internet service providers (ISPs) can peek at the internet-connected devices people use in their own homes–baby monitorsTV set-top boxes, vibrators–even when those devices are specifically set up to protect users' privacy.

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