Urgent warning air fryers could be listening in on families and spying on them

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Startling new research shows that some air fryers are spying on unsuspecting users. Experts from Which? - who analysed multiple appliances sold in the UK - have found several demanded permissions to listen in on users' conversations.

The kitchen gadgets are incredibly popular and use hot air rather than hot oil to cook foods, offering a quick and healthy alternative to deep-fat fryers.

As reported by the Mirror, once again they top the early Christmas wish lists for many. The research rated air fryers across six categories – consent, transparency, data security, data minimisation, trackers, and data deletion.

Based on these ratings, the researchers gave each product an overall privacy score. And Harry Rose, Which? magazine editor, said: "Our research shows how smart tech manufacturers and the firms they work with are currently able to collect data from consumers, seemingly with reckless abandon, and this is often done with little or no transparency."The analysis revealed that all three products – Aigostar, Xiaomi Mi Smart, and Cosori CAF-LI401S – knew their customers' precise location.