2017: your vacuum cleaner is quietly mapping your home........ and selling that to the highest bidder gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big…

Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder

The Roomba is generally regarded as a cute little robot friend that no one but dogs would consider to be a potential menace. But for the last couple of years, the robovacs have been quietly mapping...

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THIS IS NOT SOMETHING ANYONE ACTUALLY WANTS

Jul 24, 2017 · 8:11 PM UTC

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barbarians are at the gate and we're just letting them in through all of these devices and our Internet connection :/
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Amazon, google, zillow, walmart... could all make use of knowing your home's approximate square footage. Except they probably already do.
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Next step: you have to outbid all the corps yourself so that your roomba can use its own data to actually hoover.
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If we could find a use for technology other than advertising, that would be great.
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I have to correct you on that. Corporations do. MONEEEEY!
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Wait you don't want poop analyzed for super optimized ads? it's just me?
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If people would get off their arse and vacuume clean their homes themselves, this crap wouldn't happen.
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Man, I know this is old, but I don't really get this. What would be the problem exactly? Yeah, it's advertising, but so? If they're actually recommending decent products, what's the big deal?
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SORT of a scary thing? We're way past that point, Mr. Rose.
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