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If you want to call ranting making valid points not addressed in the post. There is no reason to have internet connected everything, you cannot trust that they aren't exporting your data even with home assistant. You should address that in your post or expect such commentary.
Saying "my point is valid" does not make an argument valid. You're presenting as a 2nd year computer science student who is mad because they just learned that Microsoft is less than trustworthy. Who read an article about toxoplasmosis recently.
Most of the devices connecting to Home Assistant are using air gapped, non-wifi networks. A lot of them don't have a TCP/IP stack, much less a radio capable of connecting to the internet.
Home Assistant is an open source project. It's not a thing constructed by a company for sale. You are in a lemmy instance talking about it, which is why the people reading a post about a version update to it, know what it is.
Yes, there could be a magical way for "them" to secretly gather data on everything you do. But at that point they don't need the smart devices.
Not to mention that this post is specifically in the Home Assistant-community, which describes the FOSS, local control and privacy aspects of it in the community description.