Re: you could simply not put the creepy things in your home
"listening to everything and only reacts when you speak the magic words"
As per Kendy in Niven's Integral trees. Kendy listened all the time, but only responded when a statement was preceded by the keyphrase prikazyvat KendyThe keywords were only there to stop the crew suspecting Kendy was spying on them. Which he was
Biting the hand that feeds IT
