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Daily News Stuff 7 October 2024

For Whom The Vacuum Vacuums Edition

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  • Insecure "Deebot" vacuum cleaners made by Chinese company Ecovacs are recording you and taking pictures and measuring every corner of your house and sending the data back to the manufacturer.  (ABC)  (no, the other one)

    But you agreed to this when you were silly enough to buy one of their products.
    The Chinese home robotics company, which sells a range of popular Deebot models in Australia, said its users are "willingly participating" in a product improvement program.

    When users opt into this program through the Ecovacs smartphone app, they are not told what data will be collected, only that it will "help us strengthen the improvement of product functions and attached quality".

    But I can use the app to delete my data, right?
    It also states that voice recordings, videos and photos that are deleted via the app may continue to be held and used by Ecovacs.
    But at least the data doesn't go any further, right?
    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."

    But... Lerian Jihad time.

     



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