[RegulatorCountry]

If you want an online entity to know the layout and contents of your house given the widespread incidence of hacking and data breach then have at it. But, I'm not particularly enthralled at the idea, myself. Tell me, does the notion that your vacuum cleaner, your vacuum cleaner, is gathering data on you and reporting it to a central database for future monetization not disturb you at all? How many potential uses of this data can you envision that would not exactly be appealing? You can bet your taxing authority would be interested if cheap enough and it will be. What if a sort of casing database pops up on the dark web targeting apparently well-off households, not just contents but providing a convenient map? Does that sound implausible to you? Where there's money to be made there's a will to do it, and where there's a will there's a way.

[ifinnegan]

“What if a sort of casing database pops up on the dark web targeting apparently well-off households, not just contents but providing a convenient map? Does that sound implausible to you?”

That’s one I thought of. It would also, perhaps more so, apply to law enforcement agencies to have the floor plan and associated details.

What other scenarios do you envision.

[21twelve]

That pokemon app that the kids use to “catch” them wherever they are? It was designed by a guy that helped create google earth (I think). Both google earth and pokeman were/are funded in part by the government in order to develop software that helps track people.

I’m not saying that Pokemon IS sending the tracking information to the government - but that is part of the design, and is why the government is interested in the application of it. In the small print it does say that any of the information obtained (gps coordinates, photos, etc.) becomes the property of Pokemon and can be shared with law enforcement.