All that smart tech spies on people, and records audio and video. The tech companies claim that the recordings are only for R&D and trouble shooting, but I no longer buy that.
When I retired from a defense contractor company in 2012, I was in a position to know that there was not enough computer storage in the world to record all that. Today, at the end of 2022, I know that now there are orders of magnitude more storage than ten years ago.
Yup- and all the tech has lists of keywords they monitor for too-