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Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House (futurism.com)
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Google Cartographer huh...

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

As the article describes, it wasn't so much that the vacuum sent the map because it didn't have the local processing to work without it. The problem was that their servers sent a remote kill packet to his vacuum whenever he blocked it from sharing his data. So his vacuum would completely stop until he sent it back for service.