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Topic: is your robot vacuuming device watching you take a shit?

boof started this discussion 1 year ago #121,551

Here's a story about how toilet pics were leaked from a contractor who was hired to identify stuff in pics to train AI.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy/

What I'm thinking is, does a fucking appliance like that need continual access to the fucking internet really for Christ sake

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later[^] [v] #1,328,789

lmao

new fear unlocked

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 2 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,328,799

these images were captured by its Roombas in 2020. All of them came from “special development robots with hardware and software modifications that are not and never were present on iRobot consumer products for purchase,” the company said in a statement. They were given to “paid collectors and employees” who signed written agreements acknowledging that they were sending data streams, including video, back to the company for training purposes. According to iRobot, the devices were labeled with a bright green sticker that read “video recording in progress,” and it was up to those paid data collectors to “remove anything they deem sensitive from any space the robot operates in, including children.”

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 37 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,328,800

If I worked for Roomba, and took in a Roomba with a camera and a big sticker saying "video recording in process", and signed a thing saying it could record and use the video, then I would shut the bathroom door.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 2 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,328,805

IOT nerds get what they signed up for. Just keep your bot farms off my side of the internet.

boof (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 3 hours later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,328,841

well the bigger picture issue is lazy security with such devices. the toilet pics story is a side note I heard in a program that described how companies can be lazy to the point of not treating seriously reports from people that they found an exploit and should do something about it. One guy reported an exploit, it was ignored, and then people were getting called nigger by their robot.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/10/robot-vacuum-cleaners-hacked-to-spy-on-insult-owners
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