Hm, I the EU due to GDPR this services are required to make you opt in to them.
Does that mean many of this applications are outright illegal in the EU, due to not having a good way to handle the case where the user doesn't opt-in?
Thinking about it a bit more in Germany there is a law about spy devices.
Most spying on users through websites etc. doesn't fall under it do it being formulated in the pre-internet age.
But would WIFI-7 enabled routers fall under it? It's not complete unrealistic that it might happen.
The think is this law is rather strict in how illegal spy devices are to be handled => destructive disposal. (Required, by anyone owning such a device).
That could be quite a big fall out.
This law did hit some IoT devices, like some toys with integrated voice recording.
Well it's nice that the most well behaving countries (not that they are THAT well behaved) play nice -- but for countries in mmmm...Asia, Africa and the Middle East this will be a boon, sadly.
Does that mean many of this applications are outright illegal in the EU, due to not having a good way to handle the case where the user doesn't opt-in?