Many computer scientists are working in the nascent field of home automation. Surely this technology, with its myriad Internet-connected sensors and voracious l

Many computer scientists are working in the nascent field of home automation. Surely this technology, with its myriad Internet-connected sensors and voracious logging, has the potential to implement a perfect surveillance state - especially combined with data mining. I would like to think the companies building these systems are going to value user control over all else, but somehow that seems unlikely given current models of funding.