I’m not really gung-ho about mandatory approaches either, like with licensing, but for an optional approach:

• I have to be able to assess a device and its drawbacks with a reasonable amount of knowledge and time spent researching it.

• There has to be at least one option on the market that does what I want.

For cars, at least, we’re really getting to the point where it’s not practical to get a new car without a cell data link that phones home.

And trying to stay atop of the privacy issues for all classes of device out there can’t be a full-time job, or it’s not reasonable to expect people to make informed purchasing decisions. Like, I should just be able to say that I don’t want a device that broadcasts any persistent unique IDs in plaintext over a radio, not have to research whether the current crop of smart automobile tire pressure valves has a protocol that exposes that information or not.