#AI #AITraining #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection #Ecovacs #Robots #RobotVaccum: "Ecovacs's privacy policy – available elsewhere in the app – allows for blanket collection of user data for research purposes, including:
- The 2D or 3D map of the user's house generated by the device
- Voice recordings from the device's microphone
- Photos or videos recorded by the device's camera
It also states that voice recordings, videos and photos that are deleted via the app may continue to be held and used by Ecovacs.
An Ecovacs spokesperson confirmed the company uses the data collected as part of its product improvement program to train its AI models.
Critical cybersecurity flaws – allowing some Ecovacs models to be hacked from afar – have cast doubt on the company's ability to protect this sensitive information.
Cybersecurity researcher Dennis Giese reported the problems to the company last year after he found a series of basic errors putting Ecovacs customers' privacy at risk.
"If their robots are broken like that," he asked, "how does their back-end [server] look?
"Even if the company's not malicious, they might be the victim themselves of corporate espionage or nation state actors."
Ecovacs — which is valued at $4.6 billion — said it is "proactively exploring more comprehensive testing methods" and committed to fixing the security issues in its flagship robot vacuum in November."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/robot-vacuum-deebot-ecovacs-photos-ai/104416632?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=twitter&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
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