Is your Roomba robot spying on you? There are suspicions about the Amazon group company
Privacy advocates have criticized Amazon's announced purchase of vacuum cleaner maker robo t iRobot for opening the door to "pervasive surveillance," while the Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into the $ 1.7 billion acquisition. dollars.
The planned acquisition by the technology giant of the vacuum cleaner manufacturer Roomba will give him access to the operating system of the device that uses a front camera to create complete maps of the interior of people's homes, which can then be inserted into the enormous wealth of data of Amazon on hundreds of millions of consumers.
" With this acquisition, Amazon will have access to extremely intimate acts in our most private spaces that are not available by other means or to other competitors ," more than twenty privacy and civil rights groups say in a letter sent Friday to the FTC. "The information collected by iRobot devices goes beyond house plans and includes extremely detailed information on the interiors of consumers' homes and on the schedules and lifestyles of residents ", reads the letter, shared by the association for rights. digital Fight for the Future. " Giving Amazon full access to this type of private information through this acquisition harms consumers ."
Among other things, at this point the iRobot Roomba robot cleaners will become part of the tools controlled by Alexa and part of its operating system, a tool that already collects huge amounts of user information by listening to their voices. At this point, Amazon will also have at its disposal a huge amount of physical information on citizens' homes.
Are we sure we really want to give this type of information to a single multinational?
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