Excellent reporting from Eileen Guo (https://www.eileenguo.com) in the MIT Tech Review: "A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?" untangling the well-named "global supply chain for data"
This article is one of the worst kinds of reporting. The headline doesn't match up to the story at all, even though the article makes very valid points.
"They were given to “paid collectors and employees” who signed written agreements acknowledging that they were sending data streams, including video, back to the company for training purposes. According to iRobot, the devices were labeled with a bright green sticker that read “video recording in progress,” and it was up to those paid data collectors to “remove anything they deem sensitive from any space the robot operates in, including children.” "
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"While the images shared with us did not come from iRobot customers..."
Feel the need to make it clear that I don't own a Roomba, and I'm suspicious of all tech capable of recording my family, to a point I guarantee is beyond the average person. Without the misleading title it's actually a pretty good article.
