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Is your toaster spying on you?

When buying a new appliance, should we consider that it could be reporting on us and recording us? Many of our appliances have this capability now.

Perhaps we laugh it off, or say that if we're not doing anything wrong, we have nothing to hide - but we know our cars, if they're new enough, collect data on us; and there's footage online showing that roaming vacuum cleaners can be hacked by bad actors. Sunday Morning's Jim Mora spoke to Consumer New Zealand chief executive Jon Duffy about how widespread the issue is in Aotearoa. "Yes, it will be [happening here]," Duffy said: "And not just picking on air fryers - we are increasingly seeing appliances that we're testing networked, so they're 'Internet of Things' devices - think robovacs, think microwaves ... and in particular think vehicles."

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