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Your Robot Vacuum Is Spying On You & Your Potty Pics Could End Up On Social Media
Infowars ^ | 12/26/22 | Kelen McBreen

Posted on 12/31/2022 8:08:16 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal

A recent report published by MIT Technology Review revealed the Amazon-owned iRobot Roomba devices cleaning the floors of houses across the world are also capturing private images from within the homes.

Some images of people on the toilet and in other uncomfortable and private scenarios were shared online to private Facebook and Discord groups by Venezuelan software contractors in 2020.

The author of the MIT article, Eileen Guo, posted to Twitter about the findings, writing, “I investigated the origins of 15 video stills taken from inside homes by robot vacuums and shared to social media—some featuring humans in VERY candid positions, faces clearly visible—and wrote abt the supply chain of data used to train AI.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Government
KEYWORDS: ai; dictatorship; roomba; smartdevices; totalitarianism
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1 posted on 12/31/2022 8:08:16 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

It’s a thing to watch, but what should be made clear is that these people were staff who got the test version of the upcoming model of the vacuum cleaner and signed a waiver to share this data with the company. Of course the company did a poor job protecting the data.


2 posted on 12/31/2022 8:21:12 AM PST by Krosan
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
I do no not - and never have - owned a vacuum robot.
So the privacy of my bum and winky pictures is safe.
Thank goodness!

LOL!


3 posted on 12/31/2022 8:32:39 AM PST by GaltAdonis
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Why would anyone want to see someone taking a dump?


4 posted on 12/31/2022 8:42:34 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Runaway-1984
5 posted on 12/31/2022 8:42:50 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: packagingguy
You've lived a fairly sheltered life, eh?

There are some REAL WEIRD FETISHES and some seriously strange people out there - ALARMINGLY so.

6 posted on 12/31/2022 8:53:13 AM PST by GaltAdonis
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To: GaltAdonis
"REAL WEIRD FETISHES"

Watch it with the hate speech, please. Those are totally legit genders.

7 posted on 12/31/2022 8:56:51 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: GaltAdonis

8 posted on 12/31/2022 8:57:46 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Krosan

In addition to those precautions, I read that there was also a BIG warning label on the vacuum saying it could be recording video.

These breathless articles make it seem like every autonomous vacuum in the world is doing this.


9 posted on 12/31/2022 9:05:44 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beake)
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To: gundog

Case in point...


10 posted on 12/31/2022 9:09:13 AM PST by GaltAdonis
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To: packagingguy

You missed that Simpsons episode where they went to Japan...


11 posted on 12/31/2022 9:14:26 AM PST by W. (Another great tagline forgotten from last night. Ain't it the way?)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
"Those are totally legit genders...."

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Pardon. Je ne connais pas bien le langage perverti par le genre.
Je veux dire que, je sais à peine Français.

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(Pardon me. I am not well versed in gender perverted language.
I mean, I barely even know French.)

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/SS - Sarcasm Silliness

12 posted on 12/31/2022 9:18:57 AM PST by GaltAdonis
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To: packagingguy

There are whole webpages of scat video. There are some sick people in the world.


13 posted on 12/31/2022 9:38:57 AM PST by redangus
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To: redangus

We live very rural. They could use a drone to catch us here.


14 posted on 12/31/2022 10:17:21 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: gundog

Where’s the luggage 🧳🧳🧳🧳???


15 posted on 12/31/2022 10:32:47 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I sure big brother is taking advantage of this. Like they are our in tapping into your internet connected devices to listen. Who needs bugs nowadays. People willingly put listening devices all over their homes.


16 posted on 12/31/2022 10:52:35 AM PST by consult
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To: consult
"People willingly put listening devices all over their homes."

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A few years ago someone gave me one of those things as a gift. An Echo Dot.
I never plugged it in.
Never will.

17 posted on 12/31/2022 11:45:19 AM PST by GaltAdonis
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To: GaltAdonis

Yep. Add all these to the list. People give up their privacy by using any such recording devices, such as Alexa et.Al., Roomba, your cell phones or any computer with a camera, cordless phones, smart TV, security cameras, sensors… etc., etc. There may be some settings you can adjust to block internal video/audio on cell phones and desktop, but others do not.


18 posted on 12/31/2022 12:03:11 PM PST by consult
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To: consult

WE’RE GOING TO NEED TO START KILLING A LOT OF DEVIANTS


19 posted on 12/31/2022 12:05:36 PM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Does that Ruuumba have some AI so it just recognizes bare flesh?

Otherwise, you get a lot of video of table legs, books on the floor, a cat’s tail, close up of carpet fiber, etc.

Like when a game camera spends all day recording that moving tree branch on a windy day.


20 posted on 12/31/2022 12:17:04 PM PST by Scrambler Bob
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