Article 440DR Internet of Shit mattress is stuffed with sensors, including a microphone, and you consent to being spied on by setting it up and sleeping on it

Internet of Shit mattress is stuffed with sensors, including a microphone, and you consent to being spied on by setting it up and sleeping on it

by
Cory Doctorow
from on (#440DR)

Sleepnumber is an adjustable "smart" mattress whose sensor-package include a microphone and weight sensors; the microphone collects data including your heartrate, respiration and snoring; the other sensors detect your "movement" and "positions" and this data is transmitted to Sleepnumber for indefinite retention, sharing with third parties, etc.

It's a mattress with a microphone.

Perhaps this is a good time to ponder the fact than no language in human history has evolved the phrase, "As secure as the microphone in an Internet-of-Shit mattress."

What could possibly go wrong? After all, no one does anything sensitive or compromising in bed.

Once You create a User Profile, We also may collect Personal Information, which may include, among other types of information:

* Revised or updated User Profile information

* Biometric and sleep-related data about how You, a Child, and any person that uses the Bed slept, such as that person's movement, positions, respiration, and heart rate while sleeping

* Audio in Your room to detect snoring and similar sleep conditions

* Other information You choose to provide to Us by opting in to additional functionality of Our Services, such as Your bedtime routine, so We can send You bedtime notifications and set personalized alarm clocks

If You submit any Personal Information relating to another person, such as Your spouse/partner or Child, You represent that You have the authority to do so and to permit Us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Notice.

SLEEP NUMBER PRIVACY POLICY [Sleepnumber]

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