Smart Home Privacy Checklist™

Your Echo saved every accidental wake word. Your TV takes a fingerprint of the screen several times a second and ships it to advertisers. Your doorbell has been sharing footage with people you never approved. None of this is a hack. It is the factory default, and it stays on until somebody turns it off.

The Smart Home Privacy Checklist™ is the free tool that turns it off. 22 fixes across 6 phases, in roughly 45 minutes, with the exact menu path for every device you own.

What the Smart Home Privacy Checklist Covers

Six phases, ordered so the biggest privacy wins land first.

• Inventory. Know what you own before you lock it down. 2 steps.
• Voice assistants. Echo, Nest, HomePod. Delete every recording on file and stop new ones being saved. 4 steps.
• Cameras and doorbells. Ring, Nest, HomeKit Secure Video. Two-step verification, stale shared users, motion zones, police request feed. 5 steps.
• Smart TVs. Samsung, LG, Roku, Fire TV, Google TV. ACR off, far-field mic off, ad ID reset. 3 steps.
• Network hardening. Guest network for IoT, WPA3, UPnP off, firmware auto-update on. 4 steps.
• Companion apps. Location, microphone, contacts, orphan apps still signed into your accounts. 4 steps.

How the Smart Home Privacy Checklist Works

Open it in any browser. Pick your household: Amazon Alexa, Google Nest, Apple HomeKit, or mixed. From that point the smart home privacy checklist shows the click path for the kit you actually own, one step at a time.

Adaptive to your actual devices

No vague instruction to go and check your settings. Every step names the app, the menu, and the toggle. Where a fix does not apply to your ecosystem, the tool says so and explains why, instead of leaving you wondering whether you missed something.

In Practice

Most people run the smart home privacy checklist in one sitting. Phone in hand, laptop open for the router steps, about 45 minutes start to finish. Tick as you go. Skip a step and it lands in a review queue at the end rather than disappearing. Close the tab halfway through and your progress is still there when you come back.

The single biggest win is phase 5. Moving every smart device onto a guest network means a compromised bulb cannot reach your laptop, your phone, or your NAS. Ten minutes of work, and it changes what a breach costs you.

Features

• 22 fixes across 6 phases, ordered by impact
• Ecosystem picker for Alexa, Nest, HomeKit, and mixed households
• Exact menu paths, not general advice
• Progress saves automatically in your browser
• Skipped steps collected into a review queue
• Keyboard shortcuts and back navigation
• Works offline once the file is open
• No account, no email, no tracking

What’s Included

• The interactive Smart Home Privacy Checklist tool, a single HTML file that opens in any browser
• A 13-page printable PDF companion covering all 22 fixes room by room, with the Alexa and Nest paths side by side

Both arrive in one ZIP file.

Instant Download, No Account Needed

This is a digital product. The download link appears the moment you check out and lands in your inbox as well. Nothing ships, nothing expires, and you can download it again whenever you want. No shipping address required.

Why the Smart Home Privacy Checklist Is Free

Because most people never touch these settings, and the ones who do usually stop after the voice assistant. This tool exists to get the whole house done properly, at no cost, in one afternoon.

If you want the rest of your digital life hardened the same way, our Online Privacy Protection service goes further: full account audits, tracker removal, VPN setup, and a one-to-one session with a real engineer.

Download it, run it once, and stop being the easiest house on the street.