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It is a spy device to peek inside your home and your internet usage to 'improve' the quality of ads that you see. The fact that it has sensors scares me. Sure
by st3fan 11y ago
It is a spy device to peek inside your home and your internet usage to 'improve' the quality of ads that you see.
The fact that it has sensors scares me.
Sure they can adjust the brightness of that ring with the ambient sensor.
What I would do if I ran an ad company is use that sensor to find out what time you turn off the lights and go to bed. And what time you wake up. And then send you more relevant ads.
Or use the bluetooth in it to find out what devices you have at home, or what car you drive. Or what IoT devices you are using.
And I would use the microphone to find out how many people are in your home. Or if you have kids, and how many.
- shock 11y agoIt is mentioned in the article that the OnHub lacks a microphone.
- spullara 11y agoEvery speaker is a microphone, just not a good one. Would be hard to tell if it can listen to it.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoEvery ceramic capacitor is also a microphone. Better dust off the tin foil.
- st3fan 11y agoSomeone should break this sucker open and find out what else is in there. Microphone was a guess actually. But I would place a bet on it that it is there.
- simoncion 11y agoiFixit will inevitably perform a teardown. You are aware of iFixit? > Microphone was a guess actually. But I would place a bet on it that it is there. I'll take you up on that bet. What are your stakes?
- simoncion 11y agoWhat, you don't actually want to make a bet? I was hoping for easy money! :(
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- fixermark 11y agoIf I understand correctly, aggregating and utilizing as much data as possible is the essence of building better products via a Big Data approach. This isn't inherently a bad thing. It turns out a lot of assumptions are demonstrably false if you have enough data to start making statements about the population instead of non-representative statistical samples.