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The Mozilla Foundation has just published for the fourth consecutive year its list of connected Christmas gifts.
Entitled "Privacy Not Included," the list classifies 136 products into seven categories that indicate whether they more or less protect user data, Zdnet reports.
As in previous years, the Nintendo Switch is at the top of this ranking.
“Nintendo does an excellent job of protecting privacy” and “also emphasizes the ease of use of parental controls,” explains the company which also develops the Firefox browser.
Amazon and Facebook singled out
Among the products that tend to protect user data are also the wireless headphones of the Jabra brand as well as the Apple Watch 6. "Apple does a fairly good job of protecting privacy," said the foundation. Mozilla which specifies that the Cupertino company "does not share or sell your data".
On the other hand, Amazon is clearly singled out in this list.
Indeed, the connected bracelet of the e-commerce giant called Halo is "the scariest fitness tracker ever seen", according to the Mozilla Foundation.
The authors of the ranking regret that this object listens to users or asks them to take a picture of themselves in their underwear to assess the fat rate without knowing for what purposes this data will then be used.
Finally, the Portal tool, launched by Facebook, is also criticized in this list.
The authors are concerned about this "device equipped with a smart camera powered by artificial intelligence and capable of tracking all their movements, as well as a constantly listening microphone powered by Alexa."
Especially since it is managed by Facebook, a company that has already been singled out on multiple occasions for its management of personal data.
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