That's why I'm still using X-10 home automation products. Maybe not as "gee whiz" as all the IoT stuff, but no cloud component, no phoning home, just control signals sent through the house wiring (and wireless remotes sending signals locally to a receiver).

Re: "Can courts compel Facebook to provide analytics of who might be a criminal?" Lieu said in an email to the Daily Dot. "Or Google to give a list of names of people who searched for the term ISIS? At what point does this stop?"

There is a vast difference between that kind of broad fishing expedition and this particular case, which seems to fit the 4th Amendment requirement of "probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." I think the probable cause requirement is fully met.

Now, whether Apple can or should provide what the government is asking for is a different issue, and I don't know enough to form an educated opinion about that. (Yeah, I know, this is /., so why should that stop me? :-) )