An article saying `` A photo of a woman in the toilet taken by Rumba was posted on Facebook '' is a hot topic on the net



Some high-end robot vacuum cleaners are equipped with technology that uses cameras and AI to recognize obstacles and accurately grasp and remember the layout of multiple rooms. Of course, the camera of the robot vacuum cleaner will show the user's private space and part of the life that you do not want others to see, but the article that reported that the video leaked is Hacker News on social media. etc. has developed into a discussion.

How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? | Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057699

MIT Technology Review, a science and technology magazine, published on December 19, 2022, ``A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? Was it published in?)”, Posted an article titled “Rumba,” a robot vacuum cleaner, and published a photo of a woman who was taking a toilet after correcting the part related to privacy.



This article, which suggests the possibility that the video taken by the robot vacuum cleaner has leaked, was also featured on Hacker News, with more than 100 comments at the time of writing the article. One of them said, 'This is gross and voyeuristic, but in a way it's a raw representation of Orwellian horror. Why did iRobot and Scale AI analyze the data collected by the robot vacuum Didn't they have a mechanism to protect personal information like this?This kind of disregard for privacy should be punished, and this woman should be able to sue iRobot and Scale AI and get a large amount of compensation. Maybe both companies had a data privacy policy, but it was completely inadequate, ”said a comment criticizing manufacturers and AI companies.

There was also a post pointing out that 'iRobot is a company that has planned to sell the floor plan data collected by Roomba to third parties.'



However, many Hacker News users questioned the tone that robot vacuum cleaners are infringing on people's privacy. For example, one user said in the article, ``iRobot states that all of this data is from special development robots that do not exist for consumers and have never existed. Given to data aggregators and employees, they signed a contract authorizing them to provide data, including footage, to the company for training purposes, according to iRobot. A bright green sticker was affixed to the robot, and collection operators were able to voluntarily remove children and sensitive items from where the robot operated.' Rather than a data breach as implied in the title, we concluded that the reality was that training data was exfiltrated by the operator.

'The robot in question is a specialized robot developed for training machine learning and image classification, and was probably leaked to Facebook by Venezuelan workers hired for image classification. There was also a post speculating that.

In this way, some writes criticize the leak of private data from the robot vacuum cleaner, while others write that it was leaked by a vendor who was testing a special robot for development rather than a commercial product. There was also a reaction to the article divided into two.

It also said, 'MIT Technology Review got these images and then put them up on the Internet for everyone to see in order to get more clicks on the article. It feels like the most terrible invasion of privacy, ”he said , criticizing the posting of leaked private photos, even for the sake of reporting.

The article in question is also being talked about on the online bulletin board Reddit, and the reactions to the article include comments that conclude that it is a ' clickbait article' and opinions that 'there is no change in the fact that the collected photos have leaked.' had.

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