Holy Crap - Plans to sell Roomba made maps of your house to advertisers!

Kidsandliz shared a link said Wed, Jul 26th 2017 at 12:29pm ET

See this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/07/25/the-company-behind-the-roomba-wants-to-sell-maps-of-your-home/?utm_term=.c2db479e36f0&wpisrc=nl_az_most&wpmk=1

Looks like only the older roombas are safe to buy now if you don’t want your information on the web to be hacked.

Comments are worth reading as some are really entertaining.

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medz said Wed, Jul 26th 2017 at 12:49pm ET:

Meh. Basically, they’d get this info.

Edit: They may get an idea of my square footage. Most folks can look that up online. They may get an idea of what furniture I have. Shocker! I’ve got a couch and coffee table!

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- @medz well unless they put a stealth camera in it… to me it is too intrusive with the default position being included in and then you have to opt out rather than have to opt in and otherwise be out.
  
  Kidsandliz said Wed, Jul 26th 2017 at 1:09pm ET
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pitamuffin said Wed, Jul 26th 2017 at 1:22pm ET:

Enough with all the smart crap already. Long live dumb!

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- @pitamuffin It’s already in effect, we started with the President.
  
  cinoclav said Wed, Jul 26th 2017 at 2:56pm ET
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f00l said Wed, Jul 26th 2017 at 2:37pm ET:

Way to hurt sales. I hope.

Of this were very well and thoroughly explained on large print, and you absolutely had to read all that large print, and it were opt-in only, I suppose it wouldn’t be strictly completely evil

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Moose said Wed, Jul 26th 2017 at 5:12pm ET:

Ha, suckers. My sweet baby Eufy RoboVac 11 would never narc on me

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- @Moose Neither would my Neato…I hope gulps
  
  mehbee said Thu, Jul 27th 2017 at 8:37am ET
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PocketBrain said Thu, Jul 27th 2017 at 6:54am ET:

Welcome to the IoT, humans.

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