Katie Cunningham reports:
This month, Amazon inked a deal to acquire smart vacuum company iRobot – the makers of Roomba – for a tidy US$1.7bn. As some see it, if the purchase goes through, that should worry us.
“It’s all about the data,” says David Vaile from the Australian Privacy Foundation.
Privacy advocates such as Vaile are concerned the robot vacuum cleaner will give Amazon access to floor plans of users’ homes, using mapping features some iRobot products already offer.
Read more at The Guardian.
h/t, Joe Cadillic