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Re:How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? by twelve40 on Monday December 19, 2022 @05:08PM (#34058430)
it's great that you personally are thorough enough to dig into the article and see for yourself - my favorite data set size of 1 and conclusions from that - but half the people even here, let alone outside of hn, will just grab the headline and run with it, saying "I heard roombas spy on people", and that's a problem. And the people who wrote this article know this full well.
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Re:How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? by mikem170 on Monday December 19, 2022 @07:25PM (#34059854)
What's the worst that happens, someone buys an older roomba without a camera or gets some exercise using a vacuum?

Would it be a bad thing if people erred on the side of being too private, for a change?

A lot of people think it is a problem that people are blindly trust big tech tracking everything they do, or are uninformed about this sort of thing.

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Re:How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? by sofixa on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @04:08AM (#34063480)
> "I heard roombas spy on people"

Precisely how the "Zoom is Chinese spyware!" stuff spread around.

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