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Re:How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? by huhtenberg on Monday December 19, 2022 @06:02PM (#34059069)
No.

Out of spite I took the iPad to a friend's house, enabled location, clicked through the welcome screen and disabled it again. Then came back home and hooked up the device.

So, no, it's not linked to its BT needs at all.

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Re:How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? by operator-name on Monday December 19, 2022 @06:17PM (#34059246)
How did you connect your device to your wireless network?
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Re:How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? by wvoch235 on Monday December 19, 2022 @06:34PM (#34059429)
Friend clearly didn't live very far away
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Re:How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? by operator-name on Monday December 19, 2022 @06:51PM (#34059561)
And therefore the location was within range of the WiFi network, not really netting a privacy gain, if at all? Especially since SSID databases exist and are used for more accurate location detection.
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Re:How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? by mattl on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:43PM (#34060895)
iPad with mobile data?
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Re:How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? by huhtenberg on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:16AM (#34064352)
You connect to it via BT first and then configure WiFi details.
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