Exactly why I dislike people anthropomorphizing robots like vacuum cleaners and delivery bots. They aren’t “cute”, they’re shitty little monsters spying on us.
If you see a delivery bot stuck in a pothole, don’t help it. Better yet, tip the thing over.
If you use a robot vacuum, make sure it’s not uploading video and sound, if you can.
Don’t trust these damn things. Why would you?
Recently, I had Xfinity fiber installed. I cancelled it the same day. I discovered that I can’t run my own hardware, I’m required to run theirs (and pay $15/mo. for the privilege.) And, their wifi router tracks body location inside the home.
They sell it as a “no extra cost feature”: https://www.xfinity.com/hub/smart-home/wifi-motion
When the feature is enabled, you’ll receive a push notification if movement is detected in your coverage zone.
I have no doubt this is true, but they don’t say that when the feature is disabled, they aren’t still getting the data, just that you aren’t. Enabling it enables the notifications, disabling doesn’t disable the tech, just your awareness of it.
I had to return the hardware to a store, they asked why I cancelled, and when I tried to explain this to the kid behind the counter, he blew me off as paranoid. Okay, fair enough, but take your damn hardware back, I don’t want it.
Their wifi router does WHAT?!? Isn’t that illegal or something??
Unbelievable. That’s why I provided the link, no one would believe this otherwise.
It blows my mind that people act like this about it like the kid did.
“Well, I let it track me everywhere in the house so why wouldn’t you? You’re paranoid”
Wow! I heard about wifi for tracking “in the lab” or as a hack you could do yourself but I had no idea it was already commercialized.
Same here. First I was mad that I couldn’t run my own router, because I didn’t want to rent theirs. Every other provided has allowed this, I didn’t think to ask before I had it installed. THEN I discovered why they won’t let me run my own hardware, it wasn’t ONLY the $15 a month they wanted.
Those are some pretty solid pearls.
this is spot-on. it couldn’t be more accurate.
Sarah Connor?
Apparently the author has never done something inconsequential for the sake of learning.
Usually people have fun discovering new technologies and researching.
Hence why they make a robot dance.
Then come in the money givers and tell them to make it into a war machine…
