If something has a “smart” in its name, you know that it’s talking to someone else, and the topic of conversation is probably you. You may or may not like that, but that’s part of the deal when you buy these things. But with some smarts of your own, you might be able to make that widget talk to you rather than about you.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/07/04/smartwatch-snitches-on-itself-and-enables-reverse-engineering/