Amazon and Google will be collecting an amazing database—of incredibly stupid people who don’t value their privacy.
If someone gave me one of those as a gift I would stomp on it until destroyed right in front of them.
You’re talking to someone who has disabled all the mics and cameras on her computers.
:D
Or maybe they’re just not paranoid luddite fools. Really all the data is boring crap that’s available through other sources anyway. And it could save somebody’s life, I’ve seen a friend with diabetes mess up the sugar math and start sliding into the coma, if I wasn’t there what happens to them. Well they now have an echo.
Some folks just need to get over themselves. You really aren’t that interesting and nobody is actually hunting for your precious data.
Subject it to a strong magnet, followed by dousing it with a chemical fire extinguisher and leaving it in the garage. Board will corrode to something unrecoverable.