"Home: The place we return to. A place of privacy, security, identity and belonging."<p>My problem with all of these services is that in order for them to be effective and provide the features they're offering, you're essentially giving up some of your privacy and potentially weakening your security by filling your home with sensors broadcasting their inputs to a 3rd party. Sure - maybe you'll get a push notification if somebody breaks into your house. But you're also creating a new vector of attack to your home - a camera and microphone, capable of broadcasting "to the cloud" to a startup's servers that are hopefully designed in a way to safeguard, from both internal and external prying, the very-private data they'll amass.<p>No connected system is impenetrable. And given the very public governmental pressure to have access to any and all information from technology firms, I'm not sure the benefits of these products outweigh the costs.