They want to sell their stuff and will say whatever it takes to do so. Of course they will not sell your data, until they change their mind because of their shareholders / losses / possibility to make more money / change in CEO / ....

Some people even argue that antivirus programs cause more vulnerabilities that they solve and advise not to install any. Besides that, they will make your computer ridiculously slow, and might interfere with each other, possibly causing crashes and false positives.

Seriously, there is absolutely no need to connect fridges, cars, toasters, kettles and other shit to the internet. This is not progress, and it will not make people's life easier. Just different.

You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait until you meet a real women.

Obviously the US is not a single timezone. And not all people wake up at the same time either. That does not change the fact that it may be interesting to look into this coincidence.

The time difference between China and the US is also 13 hours. Coincidence?

Must be lots of repeated code. Then it is riddled with a single bug.

The real problem is that apparently no scientists were involved in the decision to purchase these things.

So to defend against attacks on our freedom we take away that freedom? Politicians have totally lost the plot.

If the state keeps taking responsibility from the people we will end up with no one knowing anymore what responsability is. "It is not forbidden so it's OK".

"Robotics' professionals are understandably skeptical" They forgot to ask professional chefs? They are probably even more skeptical.

If they openly collected telephone data they would not be called the SECRET service.

Huh? My point is exactly the opposite. I don't care about the clock at all, so it makes sense to synchronise the clock (and thus the time when I am expected to be at work) more closely to the sun.