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Even when we reach a point where the hype is appropriate and the tech is actually ready and I can expect to finally buy a robot that will clean my house and do
by autoexec 3y ago
Even when we reach a point where the hype is appropriate and the tech is actually ready and I can expect to finally buy a robot that will clean my house and do our dishes I still won't be getting one since you can bet that any robot sold to consumers will be constantly recording audio and video of the inside of our homes to send back to the manufacturer and all of that data will ultimately be used to enrich others at our expense, shared with law enforcement, and most likely end up in the hands of data brokers.
The days where new cool technology that would make our lives better was something to look forward to are over. Now it's "How is this new technology going to be used against me?" and "How soon will this technology be deliberately made worse in order to take more from my family?"
The best we can hope for is that cleaning robots will be something that people can build and program themselves from trusted parts, but considering how that hasn't worked out for most of the recent tech in our lives today I'm not encouraged. No one I know is using a cell phone, a smart TV, or a modern game console that they built themselves. Most people feel that they are incapable of even putting a simple camera on their own front door that doesn't also hand their data over to amazon and to the police.
Until new technology can be truly owned by the people who pay for it, and isn't used against the buyer for someone else's interests I'll be skeptical of every new device and gadget they try to sell us.
- weregiraffe 3y ago>will be constantly recording audio and video of the inside of our homes Just install a Faraday cage around your house. Problem solved! /s
- wegfawefgawefg 3y agoIt could cheaply store a buffer of years of audio and compressed video and transmit at any time later.
- readyplayernull 3y agoJust don't teach the robot how to open a window.
- adroniser 3y ago[flagged]
- TheCapeGreek 3y agoEnshittification is not about governments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
- artifact_44 3y ago[dead]
- cheschire 3y agoThe problem isn’t about KGB style spying with half a million employees. The problem is technology enabling automated KGB style spying that feeds automated information operations on an international level. If everything you say in your house is digitally stored in perpetuity, the things you say today can be used to manipulate you tomorrow by either a state or a corporation.
- ceejayoz 3y agoHistorically, plenty have, and sometimes those governments arise unexpectedly and rapidly. We have no idea what a fascist government with the ability to closely monitor every person in real-time looks like yet. Maybe it's the answer to the Fermi paradox.
- teddyh 3y agoThe Eternal Value of Privacy, by Bruce Schneier in 2006: <https://www.wired.com/2006/05/the-eternal-value-of-privacy/ https://www.wired.com/2006/05/the-eternal-value-of-privacy/>
- dang 3y agoPlease don't post aggressively like this; we have to ban such accounts. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- ryandrake 3y agoSubscriptions, telemetry, forced "upgrades," the need to create an account, and always-online requirements have ruined my love of technology products and made me skeptical by default. Gone are the days when you could just buy a product from a manufacturer and not have to have this weird ongoing relationship with that manufacturer. Everything is unnecessarily tethered to the manufacturer now. The Market is failing to solve this problem.
- touisteur 3y agoWell let's hope some arduino-like OSS community will appear...