"Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, offered a more optimistic framing of the WiFi-connected devices — the so-called internet of things — that now populate our homes: “If it’s an internet of things gift that has a ‘dumb switch’ that allows me simply to disable the connectivity while still using the product (imagine an IoT coffee maker), I happily accept the gift and thank them for giving me something with such versatility. I think it’s a positive thing to emphasize products that will allow me to use them even if I don’t want to hook them up to the internet.”"
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