vayun

You're mistaken as the links you provided indicate. They are about blurring peoples houses on Street View as they are seen from public streets. Completely unnecessary and inconsistent with general rule of Panoramafreiheit.

https://esphome.io/ would make the software side of this a 10 minute job

At which point they will be stopped by Ubuntu login screen which requires user password (or fingerprint, pin, etc).

Basically there are two options for have to enter 1 password: 1. TPM disk encryption + login password. 2. Password for disk encryption and automatic login (doesn't support multiple user accounts well).

Cigna posted a single 570GB gzipped JSON that barely qualifies as machine-readable

What is the problem with cyclists cross the road on a pedestrian crosswalk (with a reasonable speed of course)? In some European countries cyclists are actually forbidden to take direct left turn on the road and have to use pedestrian crosswalk for that.

The article is pure FUD spreading.

"potentially being able to eavesdrop on our conversations", so now any app which has access to microphone "may be listening"?

So it uses data which you are willingly share with it to "serve better ads". Where is a problem with that? Does the author prefer worse ads?