EU Data Act: Auditing My Smart Devices (Part 1)
| Objective: | Audit personal IoT devices to see if manufacturers are complying with the newly active EU Data Act. |
| Target Devices: | Eufy Indoor Cam Pan&Tilt, Samsung 55" Q95TD QLED 4K TV. |
| Perspective: | I am approaching this as a consumer seeking to understand my own data, while simultaneously acting as a Solutions Architect evaluating the delivery approach and the quality of the data entities provided. |
Like a lot of people, my house contains some connected hardware. I know these devices generate a massive amount of telemetry every single day, and for years, I just accepted that the manufacturer owned it. But with the EU Data Act now active, the rules have flipped. Legally, the data generated by my connected devices belongs to me.
Out of pure consumer curiosity, I decided to test this. I wanted to see exactly what kind of data is being transmitted out of my living room and how hard it is to get my hands on it.
But because my day job is solution architecture, I can’t help but look at this through an engineering lens. When I ask for my data, I want to see the machinery the vendor built to deliver it. Are they treating compliance as a modern engineering challenge with clean APIs, or just a legal nuisance handled by manual spreadsheets?
Here is the log of my first interactions.