Colleagues --Below are a couple of new surveillance/communication tools that open the home for entry and can potentially send out from it -whether what's inside the house or in the backyard. The usual questions about data protection, ownership, security, hacking and borders apply. Contrasting the first two stories with the last offers a nice way to think about the meanings of being informed and consenting. The social analysts work is never done. "no knock entries" http://www.10news.com/newsy/amazon-wants-to-enter-your-home-when-youre-not-there "vacuuming up the data" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/technology/roomba-irobot-data-privacy.html?_r=0 "the skies the limit" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/opinion/police-surveillance.html www.garymarx.net<http://www.garymarx.net>