I mean there are countless documented situations where U.S. law enforcement has dramatically overreached or misstepped, and personally, I’d prefer people who have cameras and microphones in my home to require the U.S. judiciary to review some facts and agree to issue a warrant for any access. Amazon doesn’t meet this test and so this acquisition likely means we’ll be parting ways with iRobot equipment in our home.

I guess you could say my threat model is not “the United States is my adversary”, and more that I appreciate some checks and balances being present on ‘local yokel’ police departments which are empirically not always doing the right thing (especially where oversight is low).

If US law enforcement is your adversary you’re already fucked. All US companies are subject to subpoena.

A subpoena needs to be signed off by a judge. And there is an appeals process.

Asking for data, and getting it without warrant, is golden.

This is legal for the FBI. An illegal wiretap is not.