KILZ FILLZ Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-irobot-roomba-acquisition-data-privacy/ Why is the Roomba company worth $1.7 billion to Amazon? It’s not the dust, it’s the data. ••• iRobot got its start building robots for the US military, but 20 years ago added consumer vacuums to the mix. (It spun off the defense business altogether in 2016.) Those Roombas work in part by using sensors to map the homes they operate in. In a 2017 Reuters interview, iRobot CEO Colin Angle suggested the company might someday share that data with tech companies developing smart home devices and AI assistants. ••• “People tend to think of Amazon as an online seller company, but really Amazon is a surveillance company. That is the core of its business model, and that’s what drives its monopoly power and profit,” says Evan Greer, director of the nonprofit digital rights organization Fight for the Future. “Amazon wants to have its hands everywhere, and acquiring a company that’s essentially built on mapping the inside of people’s homes seems like a natural extension of the surveillance reach that Amazon already has.” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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