Our vacuums could sell our data to the highest bidder, but we don't seem to care

Thursday, August 3, 2017 - 04:32 in Mathematics & Economics

iRobot, the makers of the popular automated vacuum, the Roomba, wants to sell the data it collects about people's houses to tech companies. In short, that would mean that your private decisions – where you want to put your couch in relation to your TV or fridge, for instance – are, to some extent, no longer private.

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