It doesn’t appear that anything is being done about this. I imagine there are many more devices pulling similar shit (sending personal data they collect back to their data centers without consent)… It just bothers me that there’s doesn’t seem to be any pushback whatsoever in cases like this. Not that i need or use a robot vac but I’m sure this type of data collection is hardly limited to them
No no, I absolutely agree that shit like this shouldn’t be allowed in the first place. But the issue is most people I’ve met genuinely do not care. They are okay with the amount of data being collected by their corporate overlords.
At the very least stating that a product won’t work if it isn’t connected to the internet allows consumers who do give a shit to know what type of product they’re dealing with.
The “iLife” robot in the article is based on the 3irobotix CRL-200S, a “white label” unit that a bunch of brands sold as their own, up to and including Xiaomi, Viomi, Conga, Cecotec, Proscenic, and even Wyze. I have the Wyze version (the only one sold in the US), which will be getting Valetudo, but I kinda bricked it while attempting to root it. Luckily the motherboards are cheap, I picked up a “new” one for $15. Just waiting for it to show up.
It doesn’t appear that anything is being done about this. I imagine there are many more devices pulling similar shit (sending personal data they collect back to their data centers without consent)… It just bothers me that there’s doesn’t seem to be any pushback whatsoever in cases like this. Not that i need or use a robot vac but I’m sure this type of data collection is hardly limited to them
Even worse still, if you don’t allow them this intrusive data, they remotely brick the device you own.
There needs to be a law stating companies MUST notify you that “this product won’t work if data collection is disabled” on the outside of the box
Lol sure, “let them do whatever they want but it should be ILLEGAL not to write it on the box!”
No no, I absolutely agree that shit like this shouldn’t be allowed in the first place. But the issue is most people I’ve met genuinely do not care. They are okay with the amount of data being collected by their corporate overlords.
At the very least stating that a product won’t work if it isn’t connected to the internet allows consumers who do give a shit to know what type of product they’re dealing with.
Corporate execs ought to go to prison for that.
s/prison/the guillotine/
Something has already been done about this: https://valetudo.cloud/
The “iLife” robot in the article is based on the 3irobotix CRL-200S, a “white label” unit that a bunch of brands sold as their own, up to and including Xiaomi, Viomi, Conga, Cecotec, Proscenic, and even Wyze. I have the Wyze version (the only one sold in the US), which will be getting Valetudo, but I kinda bricked it while attempting to root it. Luckily the motherboards are cheap, I picked up a “new” one for $15. Just waiting for it to show up.
It’s a tidal wave. It’s very hard to stop. The wave consists of about a trillion variables all pointing in the wrong direction.