‘Ask all the time: why do I need this?’ How to stop your vacuum from spying on you
by Katie Cunningham from Technology | The Guardian on (#62HXP)
Even if you're not gadget-obsessed, the odds are you've got at least one smart device at home. So how do you limit the internet of things from listening in?
This month, Amazon inked a deal to acquire smart vacuum company iRobot - the makers of Roomba - for a tidy US$1.7bn. As some see it, if the purchase goes through, that should worry us.
It's all about the data," says David Vaile from the Australian Privacy Foundation.
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