HEY'RE NOT EVEN HIDING IT ANYMORE — YOUR APPLIANCES ARE COLLECTING DATA, AND WHAT THIS COFFEE MAKER WAS CAUGHT DOING IS INSANE Forget your phone. Forget your laptop. Now people are catching their own household appliances are secretly monitoring them. An IT professional reportedly checked his parents' home network and discovered something absolutely insane. Their Keurig coffee maker had generated over 1,000 GIGABYTES of network traffic in just 10 days. That's more than a TERABYTE. FROM A MACHINE THAT MAKES COFFEE. People have raised concerns about smart TVs collecting information while they are turned off. Microphones.

Network scanning. Data collection. Then there's the LG washing machine generating approximately 3.6 gigabytes of traffic PER DAY. What does a washing machine need that much data for? Here's the disturbing reality. Your television. Your coffee maker. Your washing machine. Your refrigerator. They're no longer just appliances. They're internet-connected computers sitting inside your home. Connected appliances can collect and transmit information, often through systems their owners barely understand. And most people have absolutely no idea what data their devices are collecting or where it's going. We're being sold convenience. Smart homes. Smart appliances. Smart everything. But what if the real price of convenience is your privacy? Why should a coffee maker, washing machine or television need access to our home networks…. and should companies be forced to reveal EXACTLY what data these devices collect before they're allowed inside our homes?

The X post from @HustleBitch_ warns that everyday smart appliances like Keurig coffee makers and LG washing machines are quietly collecting massive amounts of data, with one coffee maker shown using over 1,000 GB of network traffic in just 10 days and a washing machine averaging 3.6 GB daily.

The video uses network stats, appliance footage, and graphics to illustrate how connected devices such as TVs, refrigerators, and washers can scan networks, activate microphones, and transmit information even when not in active use.

This example highlights growing privacy risks from internet-connected home gadgets that function as always-on computers, often without users fully understanding or consenting to the data shared with manufacturers.