“Ecovacs robot vacuums…are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings – taken inside customers' houses – to train the company's AI models. “Ecovacs's privacy policy…states that voice recordings, videos and photos that are deleted via the app may continue to be held and used by Ecovacs.” 🤨
The ABC has found critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Ecovacs devices.
JFC. If corporations are people, can we get restraining orders against them? Hell, they're not people, they're *vampires*. If we invite one into our house - or any other part of our life - that's it, the bloodsuckers can do whatever they want.
At this point I won’t have anything in my house but a laptop, phone, or iPad that needs a software update to function
Blimey. I won't be buying from them!
Ooh, I hope they don’t trade in Europe, the EU’s gonna have strong opinions on that.
Give me an old fashioned hoover that does one job only: sucking up dirt. Spying on owners? Yeah, nah.
Horrible, and also, why on earth is there even a microphone on a vacuum to begin with? I'll stick with the dumb bump-and-runs that don't need WiFi or an app or the ability to make a map.
ah man, this sucks