Google Cartographer huh...

all 13 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 44 points 1 year ago (1 child)

This should surprise no one. Didn't some roomba contractors already get caught wanking to the camera feed a while ago?

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The offending company is iLife and the product is the A11 vacuum robot.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    the data collection is all but expected these days.. what should be the headline is the remote kill switch the manufacturer used on the guy's device... repeatedly.

  • source
  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    https://valetudo.cloud/

    That site will tell you how to hack many models of robot vacuum cleaner to not phone home.

  • source
  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah, homeboy clicked accept on a mile-long ToS. He should know this!

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If the Privacy Policy is anything besides "Absolutely NO tracking" I'm cautious. If it requires an always on internet connection, it's not for me unless it's a router that supports custom firmware.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    There's no reason a robot vacuum should be even connecting to the internet

  • source
  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    It's a crime that Stanislaw Lem did not live to see this

  • source
  • 188 comments in c/technology@lemmy.world view that post
    6 comments in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world view that post
    2 comments in c/privacy@programming.dev view that post