Everyone focused on these devices, but in reality there are appliances that are still insidious: what happened
When it comes to cyber security e theft of data or imagesyou are led to be afraid only for smartphones or such devices, instead it seems that even the latest generation vacuum cleaner are dangerous. This is revealed by a rather worrying episode that involves a mother and child.
The theme that concerns the possible control activities carried out by electronic systems, which would be able to spy on those who use them, is very current. And now they are no longer just devices such as mobile phones or tablets, but also Modern vacuum cleaner.
Latest generation vacuum cleaner, maximum attention: they are able to do it
Let’s talk about home robots that have been in vogue for a year now, a system of Automatic vacuum cleanerwho cleans home without there being someone to control him. It is easy to understand why it is a small appliance whose sales have grown dramatically.
Protagonist of a “theft of images” is the robot casalingo Roomba who immortalized some private images and then spread them on the net. It happened to a woman who recognized herself in some photographs, which became viral on the net, in which she is seen while she is in the bathroom, sitting on the toilet. Particularly intimate images that have been practically stolen by the vacuum cleaner and spread on the net.
But how did such a thing happen? The vacuum cleaner of the IROBOT ROOMA model is equipped with a camera Connected to a LED, which is used to be able to view the surface on the system moves, in this case, however, it has immortalized private images.
The objects taken are all positioned in a box and labeled, now it is known that IROBOT runs the photos of Scale Ai, a platform that deals with putting text labels on the objects taken from a goal, a technique that is used to exploit the IA. The company that produced the vacuum cleaner apologized immediately, explaining that The model in question was in an experimental phase And not on the market.
Clarified that it is: “Special development robots with hardware and software changes that have not been and are not present on the IROBOT final products“Registration in progress“, He warned that the mode was on. So the experimenters of the small appliance would not be careful, avoiding that such an unpleasant episode would occur.
Anyway the incident he turned on the spotlight again its one her very hot, that of privacysince there are more and more the tools we use daily, which are equipped with cameras, from cars, to smartphones and now also the vacuum cleaner.
