- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
An engineer discovered that the manufacturer can remotely brick his smart vacuum for not collecting data.
An engineer discovered that the manufacturer can remotely brick his smart vacuum for not collecting data.
It doesn’t appear that anything is being done about this. I imagine there are many more devices pulling similar shit (sending personal data they collect back to their data centers without consent)… It just bothers me that there’s doesn’t seem to be any pushback whatsoever in cases like this. Not that i need or use a robot vac but I’m sure this type of data collection is hardly limited to them
Even worse still, if you don’t allow them this intrusive data, they remotely brick the device you own.
There needs to be a law stating companies MUST notify you that “this product won’t work if data collection is disabled” on the outside of the box
Corporate execs ought to go to prison for that.
s/prison/the guillotine/
It’s a tidal wave. It’s very hard to stop. The wave consists of about a trillion variables all pointing in the wrong direction.