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I think the metaphor here is that "sqft of house is visible" is less a pipe and more of a river? Random ways I can think of to harvest sqft of your house: 1.
by atomicnumber3 4y ago
I think the metaphor here is that "sqft of house is visible" is less a pipe and more of a river?
Random ways I can think of to harvest sqft of your house:
1. Satellite
2. MLS records and/or building plans
3. Don't amazon drivers drive past like every single house at least once a day at this point? could probably do something with that.
Plus, I would be shocked if "amount you spend on amazon per month" doesn't nearly linearly correlate with your income, if that's what they want. Plus doesn't equifax et al literally sell these datasets for this explicit purpose?
I agree in principle that in general I do not want amazon to have an internet-connected LIDAR thingy mucking about my house, but also I struggle to figure out what specific privacy delta is happening here that would be a watershed moment.
TBH still kind of reeling that most TVs have microphones on them with no clearly policy that they're not always listening (vs phones get a lot more scrutiny) and things to that effect. If I were going to try to improve my privacy, moving to a dumb TV is probably something I'd do well before I got rid of my amazon-roomba.
- j-bos 4y agoAgreed regarding the fact that this is, at the moment, not the biggest privacy concern. Of course, I also believe it should be packaged along with the other concerns, because I would argue that each of these capabilities can be called in security terms: violations of the principle of least privilege