Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• DNS@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These arricles are meant to be rage bait for the techno-illiterate. As you said, cell phones mapped your house long ago as well as your smart TV, or any appliance that requires an internet connection.

  People traded in their privacy for convenience.

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  • FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Both can be true. Probably shouldn’t make a regular practice of numbing out to this sort of info with the platitude “Big deal, my phone and facebook already have my data anyway. Might as well give you my mother’s maiden name.”

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  • Netrunner@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Privacy is not worthless just being one bad actor took it. It still is worth pursuing in all layers where possible.

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  • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Privacy may be dead as you suggest, but that doesn’t compel me to dance on its grave.

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  • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Phones have never mapped your house and how would they do that? Tvs don’t think it would map but yes they watch you.

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  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    +1 Indeed!

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• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do you have any source on this? I have never seen a similar article about phones sending a 3D map of your home to the manufacturer.

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• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wasn’t aware about this with regards to mobile phone tbf.

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  • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your phone camera is not spying on you.I mean this stuff is not hard to prove why doesn’t one of these people who think this prove it.

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  • ragas@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mapping like that is probably mostly done through bluetooth and wifi triangulation.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So my Bluetooth is triangulation with what. The signal bouncing around.

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      • ragas@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Other bluetooth devices in your area

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• Eezyville@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I picture the phone doing it the way it was done in The Dark Knight. That scene when Lucius Fox was in China and had to volunteer a phone to security.

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