Your Smart Fridge Now Knows More About You Than Your Therapist

Samsung's latest refrigerator model, the Family Hub Ultra Pro Max (yes, really), now ships with a suite of AI features that can catalog your groceries, suggest meal plans based on your nutritional deficiencies, and — according to a buried line in the Terms of Service — share your "anonymized consumption patterns" with up to 347 third-party data partners. The fridge retails for $4,800, which means you're paying nearly five grand for the privilege of having a kitchen appliance judge your 2 AM cheese habits and report them to advertisers. A Samsung representative assured reporters that "all data is handled responsibly," which is a sentence that has never once been true in the history of consumer technology. On the bright side, the ice maker works.