Angle's confidence-enhancing strategy goes to the heart of the larger rendition project, for which surveillance capitalist purveyors of "smart" home products have developed a singular approach. On the one hand, they stress that customers can opt in to data sharing. On the other hand, customers who refuse to opt in face limited product functionality and data security. In these Requirimiento-style relationships, instead of the adelantados' message, "Bend the knee or we destroy you," the message here is "Bend the knee or we degrade your purchase."

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 739