Do you really want Alexa in your bedroom? Whether it’s Amazon’s Echo, a Google Home device, Apple’s HomePod or an, er, internet connected device designed for self-pleasure, more and more Egyptians are bringing back voice-controlled internet boxes to turn their flats and villas into “smart homes.” That may not be the best idea in the history of best ideas, warns former Reuters correspondent Kashmir Hill in The House That Spied on Me. Who needs Big Brother when we’re willing to serve up all of our personal data for inspection all by ourselves?

Follow that up with Brian Chen’s In an era of ‘smart’ things, sometimes dumb stuff is better.

Oh, and don’t think your smartphone isn’t doing it, too: The US intelligence community is losing its mind over the growing popularity of Huawei phones, with the heads of the CIA, NSA and FBI telling the US Congress in February that “American citizens shouldn’t use products and services made by Chinese tech giants Huawei and ZTE.”

Or you could just trust musician Will.i.am and stop worrying. The pop star made headlines in Dubai last month for comparing artificial intelligence to “the rapidly developing internet of the 1980s. That followed his widely noted appearance at the World Economic Forum in January, during which he noted, “Of course, when something new comes around people are going to be afraid because they’ve never seen it. But then the creators, folks with vision and imagination, are like, ‘Oh my gosh, you know what we can do with that. You know how that could bring about a better life?’” Because creators only create good things, right?