About this project

Privacy Smart Home is an independent publishing project focused on one question: how to build a smart home that remains useful when your internet connection is down and private when cloud vendors change policy.

Our editorial model is comparison-first. We score products and platforms against concrete privacy-critical criteria such as mandatory account lock-in, local API access, offline operation, and data retention controls.

How we publish

• Long-tail keyword clustering with explicit buying and implementation intent.
• Structured research briefs from official sources, standards docs, and product manuals.
• MDX-based publication templates with QA gates before release.
• Manual fact-check pass before publishing any recommendation language.

Editorial transparency

No sponsored placement controls rankings in our comparison tables. Affiliate programs, including Awin, may be used. That relationship is disclosed in-article.