Your Roomba May Be Mapping Your Home, Collecting Data That Could Be Sold

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Your Roomba may be vacuuming up more than you think.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/technology/roomba-irobot-data-privacy.html

https://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of-your-home-to-t-1797187829

I love this story, because here in SA, being a country where, due to a variety of reasons (let's rather not go there), manual labour is seen as something that is a good thing, (I'd debate this too, just not in this thread) many of us have "domestic workers", "cleaners", "home managers", or simply "maids".

It's not the vacuuming part that I would be concerned about, it's about the "dustbag", where it gets emptied, and how it's processed. Could we see it as a more sophisticated level of "dumpster diving"? And how does it differ (if at all) from having a human person performing the same functional tasks?

You can extrapolate it horizontally -- does your dishwasher know what you had for supper last night?