The Information Commissioner's Office will be updating its guidance after a Which? report found two air fryer manufacturers have been sending personal data to servers in China.
Smart device manufacturers will be issued with new guidance on how to comply with data protection laws, a watchdog has said, after it emerged air fryers may have been listening in on families' conversations. The Information Commissioner's Office said people feel their household products 'collect too much information about them' and they feel 'powerless to control how their information is used and shared'.
Stephen Almond, executive director of regulatory risk at the ICO, told Sky News: 'Ultimately, what we're seeing is actually consumers paying twice. Paying first for the product that they're buying, but then second, paying with their data. 'And that data is being used potentially for targeted advertising, also gathering more information about how the market is developing in this sort of area.
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