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SwitchBot · Smart Plug / Light

Staff Reviewed · 2026-09-28 — a person at DeSpy reviewed this rating. Reviewer's note: Verified

1.5Surveillance
Index
Policy — what its policy permitsA
Evidence — what research provesB

Why this rating

The written explanation of this rating is withheld while a person re-reviews it.

What it is

Manufacturer
SwitchBot
Category
Smart Plug / Light
Model years
2020-present (Hub Mini, Hub 2, Hub Plus)
Market status
Current
Companion app
SwitchBot

The evidence 1

Independent research, regulatory action, lawsuits and journalism about how this device handles personal data — the "what actually happens" axis. Each links to its source.

  1. S1SwitchBot Privacy Policy (updated 2025-12-05)
    Vendor policy · SwitchBot / Wonderlabs, Inc. · 2025-12-05

    Vendor policy: does not sell personal information ("We do not sell your personal information") and commits to data minimization; keeps fingerprint/facial data on-device and uses geofencing instead of storing precise location; grants users the right to access, update and delete their information; but retention is vague (only a 30-day operation-logs example) and law-enforcement disclosure is discretionary ("if we believe the disclosure is consistent with the requirements of any applicable law or legal process").

    Why it matters here: Primary source for the policy-axis deductions (retention vagueness, law-enforcement-loose) and the data-minimization bonus; its explicit delete right is why no no-deletion-right deduction is taken.

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An email is encrypted at rest and opened only to answer you; it is erased 30 days after we resolve this (or 180 days if still open), and you can erase it sooner. Unproven filings are deleted after 14 days.

Think something here is wrong?

Evidence and research improve when people push back. Tell us what to re-check — a misattributed domain, an outdated classification, a claim about your own app — and a human will review it. Responses can take up to 30 days.

If you leave an email it is encrypted at rest and opened only to answer you — never shared, never used for anything else. It is erased 30 days after we resolve this (or 180 days if it is still open) without you asking, and you can erase it sooner at any time; either way your correction stays, anonymously. Leave it blank and your request is fully anonymous from the start (we store no IP address either way).

Descriptive, cited, not legal advice; ratings are versioned and corrections create a new version. Data from the IoT Info Grabber DB research project, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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