Related: has anyone else noticed the practice of using cheap commodity 'living room' appliances to get access to your data? A while ago I bought a ceiling light for my daughters' bedroom, brand unknown to me. It had a built-in speaker controlled via bluetooth, and dozens of light patterns and colors it could emit via a ring of small leds. My daughter was extactic looking at the youtube promo vid. Turned out that to use any of these features, you needed to install their app. Fine okay installing. Then the app demanded access to contacts and camera or it refused to connect to the ceiling light. Fine okay uninstalling the app and returning that crap.