ADT GOOGLE PARTNERSHIP
The announcement of this partnership is being touted as a new innovation to create a more helpful “Smart Home Security Experience”. By combining these two technologies could very well be a great idea if you are comfortable with the pairing of your data from your house with the Google Searches, and your email, contact list, and calendar if you like to use the G-Suite of tools.
For the moment, we would not suggest being one of their first customers. Not that it would not be secure, but almost nothing is. But it would be scary just how could all of this data be used to track a person and sell their data?
In a paranoid mindset, imagine this fictional movie, I.T. – 2016 with Pierce Bronson:
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Now, technology is great and all of the advances with personal computers and the IoT as of late are innovative and have had positive impacts on our way of life, but tech companies in Silicon Valley are starting to command and own a lot of our personal data.
If you do wish to sign up for this new ADT + Google home security technology, just be sure to do your research and wait for the first adopter’s to try it out before switching.
As always, be vigilant with your sensitive data, credit cards, IDs, passwords and in this case, the keys to your home! Security online and “off line” are your responsibility.