Thread by @LuizaJarovsky

#Amazon got access to the interior of your home without you even knowing it. They can now share it with whoever they want - incl. the police. #Privacy (thread 1/9)

Amazon acquired #iRobot, the company that makes #Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, for $1.7B. It can now have richer data about the interior of your home and share with whoever they see fit, also with the police, even if you've never consented to it (2/9)

Amazon is also the owner of:
📹#Ring: so it can have video from your home
📢#Alexa: so it can have audio from your home
🏠 Numerous #smarthome appliances: so that it can have detailed and integrated data from your routine and your needs (3/9)

Amazon has even another smart vacuum called 🤖#Astro, but it's more expensive so less people have bought it. They needed MORE DATA, and iRobot offers the map of 30 million homes. (4/9)

Examples of #privacy implications of this acquisition:
🔻By the content of your floor crumbs, Amazon can know that you prefer potato chips instead of crispy bread and manipulate specific promotions to make potato chips slightly more expensive, as it knows you'll buy anyway (5/9)

🔻It can cross the data from #iRobot with data from other smart devices you own and create a detailed profiling of your buying habits and daily behavior. It knows you so well that it can craft the exact message to send you in order to convince you to buy something. (6/9)

🔻Amazon can give the data about your home to the police, as it has done in the past politico.com/news/2022/07/1… (7/10)

"#Datapolies" (monopolies of data) are getting bigger and bigger. Do you think that #privacy is not relevant for you? Think again. Don't be fooled by the concealing enthusiasm behind new #tech tools: these are simply big companies wanting to profit from your data (8/9)

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