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all the coverage of this seems afraid of it. what's the downside to my home automation knowing that my kitchen is next to my living room?

• falcolas 4y ago
  > what's the downside to my home automation knowing Nothing. But, it's not just your home automation. It's the biggest retailers (and one of the bigger ad brokers) in the world knowing the layout of your house, including images of objects in your house if you have a newer version. So, really, it depends on how comfortable you are with Amazon having all that data on you for the secondary purpose of bringing their marketing power to bear against you.
  • twblalock 4y ago
    Until Amazon puts a gun up against someone's head and forces them to buy something, this is a non-issue.
  • notatoad 4y ago
    >including images of objects in your house is there any evidence that roombas actually collect this sort of data?
    • falcolas 4y ago
      Even if they don't today - if all image recognition is done on the machine (which is frankly unlikely) - nothing stops a software update from changing this. That's one of the boons of technology that's also a bust. There's no technological barriers to changing how a product behaves.