I'd love for the Googles of this world to really make things easier for people not as familiar with technology. For instance lightswitches do not have a pause button.
If the lights in your living room total up to 85.5W, someone with access to fine grained power consumption logs can infer when you turned that light switch on or off.
Similarly, there's going to be a telltale power consumption profile for when you're in the shower, when you run your washing machine, when you turn on your television, etc.
This isn't widespread, but it's something to look out for going forward.
But being an EU citizen, I'm confident that they can't turn it on, legally, without explicit permission.
And GDPR is taken seriously, the EU requiring and sponsoring agencies that check for compliance in all EU countries.
Don't know how it is in the U.S. but I imagine that at the very least you can group with others in class action lawsuits, such that the effort of any one individual will be lower.
As long as it is illegal of course, otherwise you don't have a case. I heard California is adopting something similar to the GDPR too.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?visit_id=...