The Machines are Watching

This is from Consumer Reports: June 2015 page 27:

Baby Monitor
What you need to know:
An unprotected camera is worse than no camera at all. Internet-connected baby monitors and home security cameras use your wi-fi network, and certain models can communicate directly with a phone using Bluetooth when you're home. Parents need strong passwords on their home network and on the baby monitor itself to keep the feeds secure.

Blood Glucose meter:
What you need to know: When you use one of these devices at a hospital or doctor's office, the medical information it produces is protected by the Health Insurance portability and accountability Act, the law governing the privacy of medical records. But HIPAA doesn't protect your data when you use your devices on your own outside of a medical setting. That leaves the burden on consumers to learn how their data is being protected and how it is shared. ---In a 2013 privacy rights clearinghouse report analyzing 43 fitness apps, researchers found that very few encrypted their data.

Thermostat:Connected Thermostats

What you need to know:
in order to work, some smart thermostats need to track when you are home. If that unnerves you, you're not going to want one of these products.

Door lock: What it does: Want to let a plumber in while you are away? ---New connected locks allow the user to provide a one time, short term or scheduled access to a home.

What you need to know:
Security researchers have successfully hacked into connected household locks.

End partial quotes from page 27 of the June 2015 Consumer reports magazine.