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Randahl Fink
@randahl@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Chinese tech company DJI launches a robot vacuum with built in cameras and advertises that you can call up the vacuum from anywhere and look around your home.

On their website, they even found it relevant to show the vacuum looking around someone’s bedroom.

Let’s recap: China + camera = suveillance in your bedroom.

That’s a hard pass.

Source: www.romo.tech

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Toni M.
@mad@freiburg.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@randahl

What could possibly go wrong?

Asking for a friend.

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huntingdon
@huntingdon@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@randahl

Volunteering to let a new Chinese robot vacuum - with cameras, microphone and, presumably, an independent Internet connection - into your house and bedroom?

ignorance is curable, stupidity is terminal.

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Nightlynx☕❄🌨☑
@nightlynx@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@randahl And that's one of the few companies that actually talk about it...

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JD
@jag0325@c.im replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@randahl in 2025 I’m far more concerned about US spying on me than China.

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Flohlaus
@flohlaus@det.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@randahl my Chinese 3D-Printer from Bambulab (former DJI guys) has a camera with built in privacy hardcover… 🤔

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Leeloo
@leeloo@chaosfem.tw replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@randahl
If you had said cloud instead of China, I would agree with you. I am not of interest to China, neither Chinese nor someone working against their regime, so for me (and many other people in this part of the world), AWS+NSA is a much larger threat.

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Lackfabrikant (EVduckR)
@EVduckR@nrw.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

And if your behaivior does not comply with the chinese gouvernment policy, the vacuum cleaner will be switched off permanently. Brave new world, indeed...

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Ehay2k
@Ehay2k@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@randahl

Oh, so cool. Does it also depend on cloud services to operate? Would be exciting if AWS went down, and the thing started chasing your cat around the house.

There were 2 guys looking at Wi-Fi routers at Best buy. They asked me if I knew anything about routers, and I said I knew a little bit. They asked what I thought of Tp-link, and I told them they should Google The Washington Post article about #tp-link and Chinese hacking. They chose another brand.
#smallvictories

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Aurochs
@aurochs@todon.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@randahl Give it to me and I'll make sure they don't want to spy me anymore.

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Rob van Kan🔻
@edgeofeurope@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@randahl https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/smart-vacuum-caught-spying-engineers-chilling-discovery-will-creep-you-out/articleshow/124908805.cms

The Times of India

Smart vacuum caught spying? Engineer’s chilling discovery will creep you out - The Times of India

Trending News: A tech enthusiast discovered his smart vacuum was secretly mapping his home and sending data to the manufacturer. When he attempted to block this data
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