All kidding aside, this attitude baffles me. Of course, it is the degree of intrusive connection to the outside world which is the issue...but what on earth is Alexa if not the ultimate expression and facilitator of this? The thing listens, it sees, it has access to the internet to play music and answer questions...so obviously this is a two-way street. If Alexa can control your home, devices and life...and is connected to the internet...then the internet has access to you. Perhaps a technophile knows how far this can go...or perhaps such a person merely thinks he knows...but someone like myself will never feel comfortable with this stuff.
Disable every interior camera? I'll go one better; I have no interior cameras, and never will. A piece of electrical tape disables the camera on my laptop and tablet. I used my phone camera extensively at work, and fairly regularly even in normal day-to-day life, so it's not taped up...but I don't live with my phone glued to my hand or in a quick-draw holster like some people. When I'm at home, the cellphone is usually in a drawer someplace, or maybe a coat pocket or even in the car.
I laughed out loud at that ^...I know that it was just a figure of speech, but it does show how differently we look at things. Having an electronic device respond to your command to do something...rather than simply hitting a switch yourself...is a "lifesaver"? I never reach into or touch the water in a fishtank without killing the power to everything, with the possible exception of the lights if they are mounted up above the tank. Electricity and water is not my favourite combo. Do I use GFCI's on everything? Absolutely...but, like any technology, I don't trust them 100%.
Disconnecting the power to inexpensive, cheaply-made electrical devices that are immersed in water that I am sticking my hand into might possibly turn out to be a simple and foolproof life-saver. Buying yet another device and telling it to do that for me...rather than simply hitting the switch with my own finger...is not.
People are addicted to technology, for its own sake. Look at cell phones; ask almost anybody what time it is and they will snatch a phone out of their pocket, maybe need to do some digging if it's cold enough to warrant coats and winter gear, sometimes even need to hit a button on it before the time is displayed. A $20 digital Casio watch on your wrist tells you the time with virtually no inconvenience; when I was still working I wore one constantly, never worried about damaging it and never had any problems with it. I still wear one while hunting because official sunrise/sunset times are important to know.
But ask one of these technoholics why they don't just wear a watch and they look at you like you have two heads. A watch? How primitive! How gauche! Why would I wear a watch like some kind of primitive subhuman...when I can just grub around in my pockets looking for my $1000 phone to do the same thing?
Oh, but today...we have
smart watches. That's a whole different thing. Another way to have technology do things for you...mostly things that you only want done because you want to watch some device do them! Hey, look at that! How cool is that? I'm sitting in my car in traffic, but I just turned on the lights in the upstairs hall closet and also flushed the toilet in the basement!
How did I ever survive before I could do that?
