When it comes to privacy violations, Ring and Nest aren't much better - but at least people have a choice whether or not to install them.

Nest: video was recovered from 'residual data located in backend systems' even though there was no active subscription.

Ring: employees accessing people's videos.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/05/...

I am an American and I am doing something about it. Co-founded a company that manufactures privacy-centric, on-prem video monitoring devices. No cloud.